0419，A love letter Gerald Durrell wrote to his future wife

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姜百爽

1、1. You said that things seemed clearer when they were written down. Well，herewith a very boring letter in which I will try and put everything down so that you may read and re-read it in horror at your folly in getting involved with me. Deep breath.

2、But I am an established ‘creature’ in the world，and so — on occasions — you will have to live in my shadow.

3、You will never know how terribly corrosive jealousy is；it is a physical pain as though you had swallowed acid or red hot coals. It is the most terrible of feelings. But you can’t help it — at least I can’t，and God knows I’ve tried. I don’t want any ex-boyfriends sitting in church when I marry you. On our wedding day，I want nothing but happiness，for both you and me，and I know I won’t be happy if there is a church full of your ex-conquests. When I marry you I will have no past，only a future；I don’t want to drag my past into our future and I don’t want you to do it，either. Remember I am jealous of you because I love you. You are never jealous of something you don’t care about. OK，enough about jealousy.

4、I have known silence：the cold，earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well；the implacable stony silence of a deep cave；the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotized and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun；the silence when great music ends.

5、I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things...