This is kind of cool–Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton…–a book about their chaotic romance, contains Burton’s tortured (although, sadly, not that well-written) love letters to Taylor.
In it, the alcoholic Shakespearean professes to the purple-eyed temptress:
“You must know, of course, how much I love you. You must know, of course, how badly I treat you. But the fundamental and most vicious, swinish, murderous, and unchangeable fact is that we totally misunderstand each other.“We operate on alien wavelengths. You are as distant as Venus – planet, I mean – and I am tone-deaf to the music of the spheres. I love you and I always will. Come back to me as soon as you can.”
