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My first and last telegram was from Rebecca West

33 points • by bryanrasmussen • yesterday at 7:30 PM • 7 comments • view on HN

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pradn • yesterday at 8:25 PM

Telegrams have a quaint connotation these days I suppose.

In old Indian movies, a Telegram would only arrive to signify really bad news - someone died, or something like that. Why else would you pay for that expense? Well, it could also be a job interview or posting. So the connotation there, in that time, was probably not so good.

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greasegum • yesterday at 8:50 PM

I didn't realize RW was cold like that.

buran77 • yesterday at 9:22 PM

> Not long ago I received my first and last telegram

> I found this telegram tucked into a passage on the Jewish community in Sarajevo [...] The recipient of the telegram was Ann Cottrell Free

I dare say he didn't receive, he found, and it's not his but someone else's telegram.

ctoth • yesterday at 7:57 PM

At the risk of being the LMGTFY guy:

https://claude.ai/share/b84c491e-3480-4407-ae76-b6cf63ee551d

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