Quotidian Experiences Back Home In Leicester example essay topic
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From a postcard showing the Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies, postmarked 30th September, 1970. Found in a Cancer Research charity shop; Nottingham, England, October 2002: Mr & Mrs. G.E. Orton, 162 Kealeston Road, Leicester, England. Here I am in Vancouver having a wonderful time, I have spent 5 days with Peggy in Alberta. From here I go on to... [illegible]... and to Long Beach, Cal, to see Tom and Ann home. Tonight I am going to the C.B. C studio to see the production of a daily magazine programme with which a cousin (from Kettering) is connected. [Illegible signature) The solipsism of the postcard is shown here in all its bland glory; an annotated rendition of a journey experience stripped of any excitement or interest. Peggy, Tom and Ann (not to mention the cousin from Kettering) all get a name check in this hopelessly dull account. So, the postcard heads for Leicester, citing Vancouver, Alberta, California and Kettering in some mad congregation of desperate locales. The 'Here I am' that begins the postcard sees the narrative voice leaping around in space-time to be both here (Alberta) and here (Leicester) at once. What to do with the postcard once received?
Return it to the sender when they " re home, as a lover might do once the love affair is over? Stick it on the notice-board at home (probably in the kitchen) and admire / ignore the image of the Banff Springs Hotel? Maybe write one back, recounting the quotidian experiences 'back home' in Leicester? I imagine the recipients (Mr. & Mrs. G.E. Orton) to be mildly interested in [illegible signiture's] travails, reading the card over a toast and tea breakfast, remarking on the 'coincidence' of the cousin in Kettering (dull, known, parochial) being involved in a CBC production (unknown, (good) foreign and exotic, when in fact it is not coincidental, but entirely incidental..
