 Another possible link comes from the William Faulkner (I) (qv)  short novel, "Old Man". In it a convict survives an Odyssey like  adventure. The "tall convict" in the story is carried away on the  flooding Mississippi of 1927 and struggles to return home. At the  very end of the story he remembers the only sweetheart he had before  being incarcerated and how she stopped visiting him in prison or  returning his letters until finally sending him a postcard. "It was  a postcard, a colored lithograph of a Birmingham hotel, a childish X  inked heavily across one window, the heavy writing on the reverse  slanted and primer