Modest Witness
Dear Amber,
I received your letter in the post. It saddens me that it has all ended up like this. I would like to say that if I have hurt you in any way, I apologize. I have never intended to hurt you. I remember all the good times we had together.
Just to let you know, not everything is good with me right now. My parents are both ill and I need to go home soon. My job is also under threat of redundancy, obviously a big worry. These things take a lot of energy.
I wish you and your family all the best
Prussian Blue
Dear Prussian Blue,
A thirty-second piece of music.
Your repeated and callous attempts to bypass the core themes of my letters continue to astonish me. I am truly flabberghasted by the level of your cold-heartedness and emotional truncation.
So that’s how you’re going to play it: No Remorse. You are going to try to play past it.
I find your modest-witness stance to be so absurdly inappropriate that if it hadn’t enraged me so much, I might find it comical.
“ It saddens me”
It saddens you! It saddens you! How cold. How uninvolved. How deliciously and gorgeously detached. A tinge of sadness. No…
