31.   Who but Marianne Moore would have sent the young James Merrill a picture postcard of a young woman standing at a state border?

32.   Bagan Sekinchan, the fishing village of Sekinchan, is a picture postcard with fishing boats, trawlers and sampans of all kinds tied up to the jetty.

33.   The result has been described, unkindly but not untruthfully, as coloured picture postcards for tourists.

34.   Its inside pages contained reassuring articles and photographs of a picture postcard Normandy.