I’ve just finished reading The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley – that was fun! The story really gets moving when the protagonist receives a mysterious postcard: it is an illustration of a lighthouse that was built 3 years prior, but it was mailed 100 years before! In the story, when the postcard is posted, the post office (in the UK) is instructed to deliver it only after a certain date. How do I ask or instruct the post office here in Taiwan to do this? Is this a standard service of the postal service? How do I explain this in Chinese?
I think it would be fun/weird/a little creepy(?) to send letters to my kid of 5 years from now. Or asking my private students to write to themselves, say, graduating from high school or university and reminding themselves of their own expectations of themselves as of today.
I asked ChatGPT and this is what she says:
(I just noticed the Regenerate button, so I tried hitting it a couple times)
Here is a bit about the book, in case you are interested. It is alternate history, historical fiction, science fiction, Napoleonic wars.
