From the inestimable Fr. Schall's "A Last Lecture: On Essays and Letters" (from the beautifully named, On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing):
"The letter comes unexpectedly some morning or afternoon in the post. It bears that element of surprise, which is almost the deepest of our spiritual concepts."
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"Letters are part of our wholeness."
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"The letter and essay will be, for most of us, the only recorded mark or our existence, the only way in which words will be put to our being."
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