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...Entering their bedroom, he sees a letter addressed to him from his wife. Perplexed and apprehensive, he searches for his spectacles, pours himself a drink, starts to read the note - she is leaving him, of course - drops his glass and cuts his hand. "It may seem terrible and mad," the letter concludes. "It is terrible and right. Forgive me, Gabrielle...
...quite see - is it her chagrin, her defeat, the evidence of her lover's passion? Then, Jean plays the gentleman and makes a fatal mistake. He says, "I forgive you." And she explodes in a derisive giggle. Even more than the insult, he senses the threat. "Then this letter is not the worst of it?" he asks, and she replies, like a death sentence: "The worst is my coming back...
...Jean proposes, and she shakes her head no.) She also confesses, indeed boasts of, the misery of her married life. She says she was happy only two times: first when she fell in love and found passion with another man, and then when she wrote her kiss-off letter to Jean. Hatred, and a momentary freedom from the man who has caged her, could be as erotic as the furtive moments spent in her lover's embrace...
...letter, first posted on the web journal of Harvard commentator Richard Bradley, did not state how long the leave will last or whether O’Brien will resume her post as deputy dean when she returns...
...Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, I was endowed not only with the necessary pecunia to keep me in a tiny flat off the Boulevard Diderot, but also with something more immaterial, yet of crucial value: a letter beginning with “To Whom it May Concern.” On fancy Veritas-watermarked paper, this short message was my admittance ticket to a number of locations that the average visitor to Paris is never to see. To enter the Institut, if one is not an immortal...