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Usage examples of postcards.

Harry sends rhymeless picture postcards and fails to find the headquarters of the Air Force division that had been promised him.

But at the same time the McGill postcard -- and this applies to all other postcards in this genre -- is not intended as pornography but, a subtler thing, as a skit on pornography.

Willy Eggers, whom he tells about Jochen Sawatzki, Otto Warnke, Bruno and Egon Dulleck, all old friends: thanks to Matern, they are able to write each other postcards with greetings from buddies.

Anyone who examines his postcards in bulk will notice that many of them are not despicable even as drawings, but it would be mere dilettantism to pretend that they have any direct aesthetic value.

Without being in the least imitative, they are exactly what comic postcards have been any time these last forty years, and from them the meaning and purpose of the whole genre can be inferred.

In the first place, of course, they remind you of the barely different postcards which you probably gazed at in your childhood.

Obviously the outstanding characteristic of comic postcards is their obscenity, and I must discuss that more fully later.

Unlike the twopenny weekly papers, comic postcards are not the product of any great monopoly company, and evidently they are not regarded as having any importance in forming public opinion.

Here one comes back to the outstanding, all-important feature of comic postcards -- their obscenity.

A recurrent, almost dominant motif in comic postcards is the woman with the stuck-out behind.

The postcards dealing with honeymoon couples always have the enthusiastic indecency of those village weddings where it is still considered screamingly funny to sew bells to the bridal bed.

Remembering that, one sees what function these postcards, in their humble way, are performing.

The comic postcards are one expression of his point of view, a humble one, less important than the music halls, but still worthy of attention.

Snow lay on the onions now, dimming the blues and greens and golds that sparkled on the picture postcards, but I stood there wondering how a nation which had produced a building of such joyous, magnificent imagination could have come to its latter-day greyness.

Harriet was sitting writing postcards at the desk under the sitting-room window when she heard a car draw up outside.