Telegrams of the Soul

Love

He loved her desperately and in vain. You always only love desperately when it’s in vain!Then she fell very, very ill. So she said to him: “I feel pity for you. I want to show myself to you more naked than naked!” And she unrolled a large sheet of paper on which her x-ray had been printed. “Oh, what a darling little skeleton!” he said, delighted. “But I beg you this one favor, just don’t go and show it to Mr. — ; that much advantage I’d at least like to have over that dog!”