"Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us ...
Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits ...
No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves ... Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men (*women) ...
My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once ...
Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever thine,
Ever mine,
Ever ours."
... The Immortal Beloved Letters, Ludwig van Beethoven
Can you imagine feeling like this? In this day and age of email, cell phones, text messaging... Where this world of communication is literally at our fingertips... Can you imagine waiting weeks, sometimes months for a handwritten love letter from your heart's one true desire? I can't. To be so long without word from your soulmate would be sheer torture. Which is probably why pure love songs, sonnets, epic poems are no longer written anymore. It's sad.
Also, Beethoven's hair was pretty awesome.
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