“Walter Benjamin: Einbahnstrasse (1928)
The weeks before Christmas used to be the time of postcards. But who writes Christmas postcards any more in the age of e-mail? They disappeared from the post offices, where formerly you could choose and pick between them from the end of November. Gradually disappear the stamps too, which we used to stick on the postcards, and about which Walter Benjamin foretold with a particular insight that they would not survive the twentieth century. And along with them disappear the customs once connected with them, including a most peculiar one: the language of the stamps, one of the several languages disappeared in the past century.”