COVER N.164 - UK

Postmark: Mount Pleasant 12SP22  
Posted on the 12th Septemberf; received on the 15th September 2022
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A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

I still remember how impressed I was by the words scrolling in perspective on the screen to a vanishing point  somewhere in the infinite space.. who wasn't? That and the first time I went to a Theatre  - good old Tivoli, that is still used for performing arts but not for movies anymore, IIRC,- featuring the then novel Dolby stereo system that made the walls tremble and the chairs wobble. 

All this years after, people are still marvelled by the universe created by George Lucas and his team, which has naturally expanded, as has the real one, to absorb all the technical developments that have since appeared in the field of special effects, to continue to produce sequels and prequels and spin-offs and musicals and books and DVDs all sort of merchandise one could think of. 

George Lucas has really created a new parallel world, not in a galaxy far, far away, though... but right across the door, with its centre in the San Francisco constellation.....

and from this new world endless hours of joy and enjoyment would radiate, as if an inverted black hole would pulsate at its centre, not only because of Star Wars, but also because of the other phenomenon that was therein generated and which had an adventurous archaeology professor named Indiana Jones at its fulcrum (curiously enough, as we all know, majestically played by the same guy who drove the augustly decadent Millennium Falcon in the Star Wars Saga).

Thank you so much Simon, for a beautiful cover with an unbeatable frieze of heroes.. I can't understand C3PO and R2D2 having being left out, though. 😀

The First film of the Star Wars Saga premiered in 1977. Since then eight more, appearing in an order more consonant with commercial interest than with chronologic logic (no, I do not stutter…) have filled movie theatres around the world with hosts of fans, although these days many would probably commit the sacrilege of watching the film on the minimal screens of a smartphone or a tablet, at most....

Aside thought: Can someone imagine watching something like... say.... Lawrence of Arabia, on a smartphone, probably munching popcorn at the same time ....?

In 2015 "The force awakens", the first part of the trilogy that sequels the original trilogy (confused?)  was distributed for movie theatres around the world. With the Star wars craze thus rekindled, Royal Mail thought it would be a good commercial idea to launch a stamp emission dedicated to the theme and so on 10OCT2015, two strips with six se-tenant 1st class stamps were issued, one of them gracing the top of my cover.

Lef t to right we have The villain Darth Vader, The sage Yoda, who was the mentor of Obi-Wan Knobi, Obi-Wan himself, a Stormtrupper (the SS of the sidereal space). Han Solo (the mighty "driver" of the Millennium Falcon) and Rey, a she Jedi mentored by none other than Luke Skywalker himself.

The other strip includes stamps with the mugshot of Princess Leia, The Emperor, Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Finn and Kylo Ren.

The postmark on the stamps tells us that the letter was processed via the Mount Pleasant mail Centre,  London's central mail central.