The Post Card

The Post Card
Title The Post Card PDF eBook
Author Jacques Derrida
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 555
Release 2020-10-28
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 022680786X

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17 November 1979 You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but indecipherably. What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you, you no longer know who you are. At the very instant when from its address it interpellates, you, uniquely you, instead of reaching you it divides you or sets you aside, occasionally overlooks you. And you love and you do not love, it makes of you what you wish, it takes you, it leaves you, it gives you. On the other side of the card, look, a proposition is made to you, S and p, Socrates and plato. For once the former seems to write, and with his other hand he is even scratching. But what is Plato doing with his outstretched finger in his back? While you occupy yourself with turning it around in every direction, it is the picture that turns you around like a letter, in advance it deciphers you, it preoccupies space, it procures your words and gestures, all the bodies that you believe you invent in order to determine its outline. You find yourself, you, yourself, on its path. The thick support of the card, a book heavy and light, is also the specter of this scene, the analysis between Socrates and Plato, on the program of several others. Like the soothsayer, a "fortune-telling book" watches over and speculates on that-which-must-happen, on what it indeed might mean to happen, to arrive, to have to happen or arrive, to let or to make happen or arrive, to destine, to address, to send, to legate, to inherit, etc., if it all still signifies, between here and there, the near and the far, da und fort, the one or the other. You situate the subject of the book: between the posts and the analytic movement, the pleasure principle and the history of telecommunications, the post card and the purloined letter, in a word the transference from Socrates to Freud, and beyond. This satire of epistolary literature had to be farci, stuffed with addresses, postal codes, crypted missives, anonymous letters, all of it confided to so many modes, genres, and tones. In it I also abuse dates, signatures, titles or references, language itself. J. D. "With The Post Card, as with Glas, Derrida appears more as writer than as philosopher. Or we could say that here, in what is in part a mock epistolary novel (the long section is called "Envois," roughly, "dispatches" ), he stages his writing more overtly than in the scholarly works. . . . The Post Card also contains a series of self-reflective essays, largely focused on Freud, in which Derrida is beautifully lucid and direct."—Alexander Gelley, Library Journal

The Postcard

The Postcard
Title The Postcard PDF eBook
Author Tony Abbott
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages 232
Release 2008-04-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0316033545

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She died today. One phone call changes Jason's summer vacation-and life!-forever. When Jason's grandmother dies, he's sent down to her home in Florida to help his father clean out her things. At first he gripes about spending his summer miles away from his best friend, doing chores, and sweating in the Florida heat, but he soon discovers a mystery surrounding his grandmother's murky past. An old, yellowed postcard...a creepy phone call with a raspy voice at the other end asking, "So how smart are you?"...an entourage of freakish funeral goers....a bizarre magazine story. All contain clues that will send him on a thrilling journey to uncover family secrets. Award-winning author Tony Abbott weaves an intriguing and entertaining mystery of adventure, friendship and family.

Sagan, Paris 1954

Sagan, Paris 1954
Title Sagan, Paris 1954 PDF eBook
Author Anne Berest
Publisher Gallic Books
Pages 145
Release 2015-06-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN 191047715X

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Before Françoise Sagan the literary icon there was Françoise Quoirez, an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl, who wrote a novel and needed a publisher for it. This intimate narrative charts the months in 1954 leading up to the publication of the legendary Bonjour Tristesse. We encounter Françoise, her family and friends close-up, in a post-war world that is changing radically; and Mlle Quoirez, in her new guise of Françoise Sagan, will be at the heart of that social change. Sagan was always focused on her writing, though at times the fame of her books was to be eclipsed by her wild-child reputation. Yet, as Anne Berest herself testifies, Sagan’s fearless approach to life lived on her own terms remains an inspiration even now.

X-Files Postcard Book

X-Files Postcard Book
Title X-Files Postcard Book PDF eBook
Author HarperPrism Staff
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1997-05
Genre
ISBN 9780061055379

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The Postcard

The Postcard
Title The Postcard PDF eBook
Author Beverly Lewis
Publisher Bethany House
Pages 320
Release 2007-01-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1585586803

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Bestselling author Beverly Lewis's story of a weary big-city journalist and a New Order Amish woman whose lives come together over a mysterious postcard.

Have a Little Pun: 30 Postcards: (Illustrated Postcards, Book of Witty Postcards, Cute Postcards)

Have a Little Pun: 30 Postcards: (Illustrated Postcards, Book of Witty Postcards, Cute Postcards)
Title Have a Little Pun: 30 Postcards: (Illustrated Postcards, Book of Witty Postcards, Cute Postcards) PDF eBook
Author Frida Clements
Publisher Have a Little Pun
Pages 0
Release 2018-09-04
Genre Humor
ISBN 9781452171388

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A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards

A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards
Title A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards PDF eBook
Author Bowers David Q Martin Mary
Publisher Whitman Publishing
Pages 432
Release 2020-10
Genre Postcards
ISBN 9780794847371

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A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards "takes you on a unique trip into the past. Inside this book, you'll find cards of high society and lowbrow humor, natural disasters, social, political, and religious movements, popular artists' illustrations, newspaper comics, circus animals, early movie stars, athletes, planes, trains, automobiles, and the corner general store--and much more! Authors Q. David Bowers and Mary L. Martin share decades of experience in buying, selling, and collecting. They guide you from the earliest postcards of the 1870s to the Golden Age of the 1890s through the Great War, and to the modern chrome postcards found on store racks today."--Publishers website.