ARTWORK BY JARO HESS

Letters

Available to you is a collection of fantasy-type letters written by Jaro Hess over a period of eight years during the 1950s, which will surely appeal to avid fans.

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    To follow is material from an unpublished manuscript by Jaro Hess, dated September 14, 1973:

    “Is it not a pleasure to know oneself immortal,
           chemically immortal?

Just think, that I shall fly into space as heat, motion
           or a bundle to light rays,

Or perhaps spring out of the earth again as daisies.

And perhaps my daughter in the seventh generation will pluck me
           and tear off the white petals to see if she is loved.

Perhaps I will be eaten by a doe and become gracious motions.

Possibly, I will die in a wheatfield, and my substance will be sucked up through
           the straw and into the grain.

Maybe then I will be eaten by a  man and become a murder,

A bright thought,

Or a love poem.

Or be a boiled and home-brewed and be poured into a bottle and drunk by a
           laborer and become a hiccough in the sunshine.

Or poured on rose petals that once were a young virgin and we together
           rise like a sweet scent to delight little girls or an old lady.

Or shall I possibly become a wing feather of an albatross?

Or shall I become a piece of wick of a candle in a church in Mexico?

Or a tiny part of a perm whale’s fluke, and dive a thousand fathoms
           into the ocean off Labrador?

Or the stamen of an obscene flower in a Brazilian jungle?

Or shall I become two seconds?

Or shall I become

Nothing?”