“How Could I Suffer Love’s Alarms…” (circa 1910) For many years, I avoided postcards that appeared overly sentimental or “sappy”. I have seen hundreds of postcards with absurd declarations of love, grotesque professions of love-sickness, or alarming admissions that would now qualify as “stalking”. But, because sentimental postcards are so numerous, and because the norms … Continue reading Love’s Alarm