stamps/: the red album and CoL49

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"Oedipa knew them by heart. In the 15c dark green from the 1893 
Columbian Exposition Issue ('Columbus Announcing His Discovery'), the 
faces of three courtiers, receiving the news at the right hand side of 
the stamp, had been subtly altered to express uncontrollable fright. 
(...) The deep violet 3c regular issue of 1954 had a faint, menacing 
smile at the Statue of Liberty. The Brussels Exhibition Issue of 1958 
included in its aerial view of of the US pavilion at Brussels, and set 
slightly off from the other tiny fairgoers, the unmistakable silhouette 
of a horse and a rider." (chapter six)

Here comes Suzanne Treister's /Red Album/, containing stamps (mostly of 
US origin), these profane equivalents of Tarot cards, from the 1960s and 
1970s, when Pynchon became the writer he is.

http://ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/STAMP_ALBUMS/StampAlbums_Red.html



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