Aloysius: Letter writing is a lost art
Melville: What, like the alphabet?
Melville: No, like epistles, written by hand, from one person to another
Melville: Does that mean that the Post Office is the Library of Alexandria? What once held treasures of the world, now is a labyrinth of ropes that few enter and has little more to offer than a hole in the ground?
Aloysius: Perhaps.
Aloysius: But in the worldof e-mail, few people put a pen to paper for the sole purpose of communicating. Thomas Jeffersonpenned thousands of letters with a quill. Anything written insuch a manner today is likely to carry great importance, either by design or by virtueof the effort.
Melville, writing: Dear Boo Berry,I am writing to inform you that ifyou remove the erryfrom your product name, you are left with an unsavory word. It would be in your best interest to...
