As I am a lover of post offices, especially ones overseas, I mailed myself a postcard home from France. It arrived yesterday, 15 days after I mailed it from the post office at 30 Rue de Reuilly in Paris.
I spent 15 minutes in the post office, as it took the clerks some time to find the appropriate stamp to mail a postcard to Canada; I was eventually given a €1.80 stamp featuring Marcel Marceau.
The postcard itself was one I bought at the Rougier & Plé shop near Notre Dame, a small biography of Oscar Wilde (13 Rue des Beaux Arts, Wilde’s last home in Paris, was a 10 minute walk away).
Thus Wilde was visited upon Charlottetown for the second time in 141 years.
About This Blog
I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person.
To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve written, or get in touch (peter@rukavina.net is the quickest way).
I have been writing here since May 1999: you can explore the 25+ years of blog posts in the archive.
You can subscribe to an RSS feed of posts, an RSS feed of comments, or a podcast RSS feed that just contains audio posts. You can also receive a daily digests of posts by email.
Comments
The choice of that particular
The choice of that particular pose of Marceau may have been inevitable, but I still think it’s genius, because the effect is man (trapped) in a stamp and so seems current. You know, I think he’s been featured in either a US or a Canadian stamp before. I think it was a full-body shot.
OK maybe I made that up about
OK maybe I made that up about the earlier stamp, because I can’t find any evidence and it seems plausible that my brain somehow scrambled him with my memory of an Edith Piaf stamp and maybe one other in the same mental neighborhood
Add new comment