Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I love how clearly posed the couples are.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Good point.

You remind me of observing something similar about this card, years ago, when Photobucket was still working for embedding in my LJ:



It was mostly posed couples:



And then there was the strange figure that didn't take much stretching to see as death:

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Mmm, bygone days

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The couple whom I suppose we're meant to read as mother and daughter seem to be leaning against the train. Not a good idea. But perhaps they've been posing a long time.

That's a very long coat the "death" man is wearing. Is he reading a newspaper? He's hard to make sense of.

Do you think the railway company supplies those little blue to stools to help people alight or did the young couple bring theirs with them?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like to think they couple brought the stool along with 'em, now that you ask. :)

But the real lightbulb for me from your post is that Death has come for the young girl leaning against the train. Cuz he/it knows what's about to happen!

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

It kind of looks like it's painted. At least, the way the stairway is makes it seem like it's a painting

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Like she's collapsed against the train, and her mother is trying to hold her, but...

Wow, that really is dark.

[happysponge.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if i add you? I like yer postcard collection.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Add away! And thanks.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

'Tis!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

And then the painting by the stairway would be a painting of a painting.

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of that line from "Kung Fu Panda" where he says "I've seen paintings of that painting"

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

"Death On-board the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe"?