Love Letters

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I love these two letters. One is from a young (my age) Giorgio Agamben. The other is Hannah Arendt’s reply. I love Agamben’s gushing fan-ishness and spelling mistakes. I love that Arendt’s reply is a mere seven days after Agamben’s initial letter. I love, also, that Agamben makes an attempt at linking the two of them through a mutual acquaintance. And I love how he has included an essay of his, almost as an after-thought, almost as if he doesn’t want to, but propriety dictates that he should. I wonder if he showed Arendt’s letter to all his pals and put it up on his wall? His second letter might have been:

My dearest Hannah,

When and where?

Forever and only,
Yours,

G. Agamben