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-- Nathaniel Dawson (1829-1895) in a letter to Elodie Todd (1840-1877) ( Winchester, Virginia, July 15, 1861 ) in: “Practical Strangers. The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln”, edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder 

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Fandom: Project Hail Mary Rating: T Summary:

Ryland Grace writes a letter to Eva Stratt to send with back to earth with the beetles. It takes him a few drafts.

Excerpt:

Stratt— Holy fucking shit, what were you thinking?  Seriously, f*** you.

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The future ?—It is up to you to help me form it.—I have no desires. No vision... You ! I don’t know what you have in mind...  The future?—You must tell me how you [see it]—For yourself if you can. Or as well as you can. We must be 100 percent open with each other again—not silent—Won’t you Dearest. Don’t try to spare me—for that kills me.—In sparing me I become silent and all wrong. And that affects you in turn—and everything becomes wrong between us.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), in a letter to Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), • [Lake George, New York] • July 6, 1929, in ”My Faraway One. Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Volume 1, 1915–1933″