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A POSTCARD from Nick Bantock’s Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence. thet iI
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beautifully illustrated postcards. plains in his Vancouver Pender ‘ i:

It’s an idea Bantock, 42, came Street studio. ‘‘! felt very envious 2

up with while checking out his — as if ] wanted to read it. When | y.

junk mail at the Bowen tstand post _ left | realizecl that this wasn’t just a :

office. personal response but a general j

“Here | was looking at my junk one.” ,

while the person next to me was His intuition was right. Griffin & f

a ny pulling out a letter with a nice See Bantock page 36 i

Evelyn Jacob 4

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Isn't it great reading other peo-
ple’s mail? it’s definitely one of the
strongest compulsions known to
man.

It’s a temptation that so appeal-
ed to Bowen Island author Nick
Bantock he decided to write a fic-
tional correspondence between

the shy Griffin and his siren Sabine SEPT EMB ER 20 s 22

— a woman of mystery who can

see Griffin’s paintings as he creates PN.E. FORUM

them from 7,000 miles away.

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by peeking into other people’s
mail.

The real treat is not the book’s
content but the new medium Ban-
tock has undertaken; as a happy
coincidence his fictional cor-
respondents are a graphic designer
of postcards and a creator of
hand-drawn stamps. The two trade

4 intimacies through love letters

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