Love across lightning columns

The story "Love Across Lightning Columns – The Passion of Dots and Conditions" revolves around Nati and Klem, who work in a lightning office, both about fifty miles apart. Klem and Nati communicated through telegraph devices and Morse code, which consisted of symbols of romantic connection before the appearance of the internet by more than a hundred years, and this relationship culminated in marriage after many troubles. The telegraph in the nineteenth century is now called the Victorian internet, and this era began when Samuel Morse, who belonged to the same state where Ella Shiffer Tair (Massachusetts) was born, invented the wired telegraph, which later developed into the electric telegraph. His wife’s death while traveling and his inability to see her before her passing prompted him to think of a quick way to exchange messages. Throughout the novel, Tair notably predicts the invention of the internet, fax, and mobile phone. Tair’s novel is a prophetic work about the future, which is an important aspect reflecting the ability of literature to read the future, imagine its data and signs. Tair is among the first to write about love in the virtual world, seeking a "soulmate" before the emergence of chat rooms and the electronic world, and she also remarkably discussed the flaws and advantages of dating in the digital world in a way that is astonishing. Tair was born in 1849 in the town of Saugus, Massachusetts, and after her father’s death, she moved with her sister Mary to Boston in 1863. She worked in a telegraph office, and Tair had to use her free time at the office to write a novel about the magical lightning world that began in 1851, connecting the eastern United States with the west, and even with the Old Continent on the other side of the Atlantic. She also worked for a Boston newspaper until her death in 1925. Tair did not repeat her novel-writing experience, and she left behind a collection of children's stories she wrote in 1869, a play in 1883, in which she defended women’s freedom in the United States. Number of pages: 254 pages