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7/14/06: I am ignorant of ways to wikify specific words found within this passage which would properly convey its meaning; the "enveloping facts themselves". Therefore, here I shall attempt to summarize the passage as well as provide a space for us to discuss its meaning. Remember, "patience". -Tip

The letter is found inside an envelope. If you look closely at the envelope (109.7), you will see
on its face, the address to which it is to be mailed, it's "fortune" (109.9). The state of the
envelope, whether it be personal or business class, "civil or military" (109.10), may give clues
as to what sort of letter is inside the envelope. But to look only at the contents of the letter
while ignoring the envelope around it, doesn't make any "sound sense" (109.15) or show any good
taste. It would be the same as a man, who is introduced to a woman through a friend of his, and he
envisions her, in his mind ("upstheres" 109.19), as being naked. He would be ignoring the fact that
she was actually wearing clothes at the time. A critic might describe the duality of nakedness and 
clothing as "inharmonious" (109.23). But nevertheless, it suggests that both are just as important
and therefore coexist. They both may be "separated from the other" or "contemplated
simultaneously" (109.33-34).