16/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'during all the time that I spent cutting out these two little flowers for you' (PC, 202).

intermission

While I get ready to go back to England, I'll take a little break from post cards. They'll resume Monday 11 August 2008.

15/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'I forgot to add that the correction is always ready to be corrected itself, and the process of restitution always remains open, to be continued' (PC, 151).

14/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'I have made a story of voyages (and not a narration of a voyage) and of the very very divided trait (Riss) out of it, in commemoration of us' (PC, 153).

13/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'But whatever the number decided upon, it is you whom I love uniquely, to you that, without even deciding upon it, I will always be faithful' (PC, 243).

12/

(Ontario, Canada)

'it is to the heritage of the unknown one that I would have liked to dedicate an institution, a temple, a poem' (PC, 239).

11/

(Hertfordshire, England)

'Obviously when beneath my public signature they read these words they will have won out (over just what?) but they will be right: it's not at all like that that it comes to pass, you know well, at this moment my intonation is entirely other ... I can always say "it's not me"' (PC, 238).

10/

(Kent, England)

'I said a few words about my post cards, asking him to keep it as secret as possible. ...The secret of the post cards burns--the hands and the tongues--it cannot be kept, q.e.d. It remains secret, what it is, but must immediately circulate, like the most hermetic and most fascinating of anonymous--and open--letters. I don't cease to verify this' (PC, 188).

9/

(Minnesota, United States)

'Our only chance for survival, now, but in what sense, would be to burn everything, in order to come back to our initial desire. Whatever "survival" might be a question of, this is our only chance, I mean common chance. I want to start over. Shall we burn everything? that's this morning's idea, when you come back I'll talk to you about it--as technically as possible' (PC, 171).

8/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'the entire book is pour toi [for you], but for this very reason is dedicated to "to" ["à"], devoted to the dative....No matter which way you turn, you always see again the back of a postcard or of a hunchback. You always have something to caress, it brings happiness' (PC, 78).

7/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'It is necessary to forget, to know how to forget, to know how to forget without knowing. To forget, you understand, not to confound' (PC, 77).

6/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'For I do write you, you didn't know, without interruption--even if I don't send everything' (PC, 26 September 1977).

5/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'I love you by heart, there, between parentheses or quotation marks, such is the origin of the post card' (PC, 60).

4/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'This is why the history of the posts, which I would like to write and to dedicate to you, cannot be a history of the posts: primarily because it concerns the very possibility of history, of all the concepts, too, of history, of tradition, of the transmissions or interruptions, goings astray, etc. And then because such a "history of the posts" would be but a minuscule envoi in the network that it allegedly would analyse...' (PC, 66).

3/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'distance myself in order to write to you' (PC, 28).

2/

(Nottinghamshire, England)

'I want to laugh with you, and this is by far my best desire' (PC, 50).

1/

(Kent, England)

'What I prefer about post cards, is that one does not know what is in front or what is in back, here or there, near or far...recto or verso. Nor what is the most important, the picture or the text, and in the text, the message or the caption, or the address' (PC, 13)