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Sep.16.2010
Raymond Chandler wrote that a writer shouldn’t read letters until lunchtime. The energy that ought to go into his novel would be diverted to correspondence.If email had been invented 50 years earlier, we might never have had “The Long Goodbye.”Email has an itching urgency that letters don’t have....