Saturday, June 30, 2007


This is an Indian postage stamp. If you have several days to spare, you may be able to buy one. First, find the only Post Office in town. It will be derilict, and no-one knows whether it has relocated or just closed forever. Best then to give up until tomorrow. After several days of aimless wandering, stumble across a temporary set-up in an unmarked shed behind some Government offices. Check that it's open. If, unbeleivably, it is, inside there may be a bunch of people sitting around. One of the men may sell you your postage stamp, if they have any.
Then you go into a special 'glue office' where you stick it on your postcard with some fishy-smelling paste on a lollipop stick. Then, you give it back to the man who sold you it. As you leave, a disproportionate sense of fulfillment washes over you.
You wonder idly what all the other men in the office do, apart from sit around. It remains to be seen what happens next...

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