Soon after the two men met in 2008, Coetzee proposed that they become literary «
pen pals,»
communicating by the decidedly old - fashioned means of writing letters.
For those of you not old enough to remember actual letters, that was where people used to
communicate by picking up a
pen or pencil and writing actual words onto a piece of paper, which they then put into a stamped envelope and mailed to the recipient.