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Notes:

This is another homage to montage - this time the photo-album montage of Clive and Barbara's time abroad. If you squint hard enough/wear out your pause button, you will find that all of these places are in that photo album.

Theo has good reason to be concerned at not hearing from Clive in 1926 - it's the year Barbara dies. I love Barbara, and this makes me very sad.

jennytheshipper helped with the wording of the postcards, which is why she is co-author. I did everything else. Because I am nuts, and have a desire to get things right, I now know far more than I ever thought I would about German stamps, hyperinflation, and stamp-collecting on the internet. This site was invaluable for Theo's postcards and for all of that info. Theo would not talk of his money worries to Clive though, would he?

The idea of Theo being a film buff came out of one of the many conversations I have had with tea-with-theo, as a lot of Theo's artistic interests do. I get overexcited at the thought of Weimar everything, but especially cinema and theatre, and I think Theo would too. I wanted a postcard from Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari, but they don't seem to exist. Der Student von Prag seemed like a good compromise, what with the Connie, and also as a little nod to the 1935 version.

Some image credits: the Ross postcards of Theo's come from Weimar Cinema and Clive's Chinese postcards come from China Postcard. Thank you, people of flickr, you fucking rock.