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Clare Sci-Fi
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The Beautiful Letter by Clare Sci-Fi

September 23rd, 2006 5:26 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create a love letter (either real or ficticious). Figure out a way to distribute it such that either:

(A) it is viewed by a great number of people, or
(B) it is viewed by a very small number of people but as a result it completely blows their minds.

As an example of (A) consider the following:

Spiral Love Letter: Helen has vanished, and one of her admirers writes her a love letter. To impress her, he divides the letter into eighteen parts, and prints each part on a separate US Priority Mail sticker. The letter contains prose, poetry, a brief play, e-theory, and several hyperlinks (printed in blue) to significant project websites. He places the stickers on street corners in downtown Chicago, starting at Washington and Dearborn and ending at Monroe and Wabash. There are four of the same stickers per intersection, one on each corner. Each sticker lists the intersection before and after, such that readers can follow the chain of stickers to read the letter in its entirety. The path they must follow forms a spiral that progresses past the Art Institute to the Palmer House Hotel. There, the letter indicates that the reader should "go up" and contains instructions for ascending to the roof of the hotel. On the roof they find a piece of paper with more plot information in a ziploc bag.

As an example of (B), consider if the love letter were inserted into a random file in an office in which you do not work.

At my university, there are racks of free postcards called Boomerang cards. After thinking about this for a while, I came up with the idea of writing a one- or two-sentence love letter on some of these postcards. I decided that they would all have to be true (i.e. things I really have thought about people), but that they would not be addressed to anyone. Here's what I wrote, in chronological order of the time they happened - if you're curious, you can ask for the story.

* Talking to you that night made me so exhausted that someone else gave me Mardi Gras beads to cheer me up. I kept them because they remind me of you.
* Thanks for tying my sweater sleeves in knots, writing me silly notes in class, and kissing me on my birthday.
* If you hadn't hugged me just before I got on the train, I would never have believed it was all going to be okay.
* When you sat on the edge of my bed with a pack of Maltesers and asked me what was wrong, I fell in love with you.
* It's dangerous to hold someone's hand when she's driving - but I'm glad you held mine.
* It didn't help that you tried to make me look at you when I was crying. Thanks for trying, though.
* Given the choice, it's always you I'll walk next to.
* I don't believe in vampires, fate, or America - but you make me forget that.
* Do you remember that time we were working together and took a break to lie on the terrace? I got a glass splinter in the palm of my hand and every time I looked at the scar afterwards I thought of you.
* I like that you look at me like you already know what I'm going to say. I like that I can surprise you anyway.
* I don't remember a single moment of boredom with you.
* I don't know how to tell you you're wonderful.
* You're one of the very few people I find it easy to be silent with.
* That conversation was like an origami flower being folded - the two sides became too many to count.

The address side I simply filled with the web address for this task. (Hi, if you found it.)
I'd originally intended just to put the postcards back in the racks they came from, but randomly, so that people would come across them as they picked out other postcards, and maybe not realise till they'd walked away, but halfway through doing this I decided it was a little boring and left some of them lying around other places - stuck to noticeboards, in the computer room, on top of a Chip-Knip machine.
Since then, I've checked up on a couple of them and found that they are gone. I hope that they have found good homes.

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posted by Water Dragon on September 26th, 2006 5:53 PM

I really like that they are all true Clare and that you presented them in chronological order. It was interesting to follow the development of your love life this way.