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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954
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using the Army for one's own purposes, perhaps, but that no longer concerns me, because I should not be in the Army anyway. I wish it could work out - I feel that I desperately need to get away from that kind of work - need a chance to put something in my mind for a while instead of piecing everything out. I saw Rosalind again last night; we talked for many hours, and it was magnificent - the way our minds meet and take fire: the most stimulating thing imaginable. We both know (she, indeed, more poignantly and unhappily than I) that our relationship should have worked to a different conclusion, but we also know that it will never die, in the intellectual-spiritual aspects of it which always most dominantly characterized it. The emotional part of the situation troubles me less and less: having for so many years thought of her in terms of a profound and penetrating intelligence coupled with an almost unbelievable breadth of human understanding, I find it easier than I would have thought possible to accept the fact of her marriage, though that fact continues to offend my sense of the rightness of things - seems stupid, unnecessary. Please write soon and assure me that your purpose is unaltered. Love, Jody
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using the Army for one's own purposes, perhaps, but that no longer concerns me, because I should not be in the Army anyway. I wish it could work out - I feel that I desperately need to get away from that kind of work - need a chance to put something in my mind for a while instead of piecing everything out. I saw Rosalind again last night; we talked for many hours, and it was magnificent - the way our minds meet and take fire: the most stimulating thing imaginable. We both know (she, indeed, more poignantly and unhappily than I) that our relationship should have worked to a different conclusion, but we also know that it will never die, in the intellectual-spiritual aspects of it which always most dominantly characterized it. The emotional part of the situation troubles me less and less: having for so many years thought of her in terms of a profound and penetrating intelligence coupled with an almost unbelievable breadth of human understanding, I find it easier than I would have thought possible to accept the fact of her marriage, though that fact continues to offend my sense of the rightness of things - seems stupid, unnecessary. Please write soon and assure me that your purpose is unaltered. Love, Jody
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