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| Archival remnant no 25 catalogue no CD 461 |
Does anyone else look back thirty years and
get a lump in their throat when they read something that their younger self
wrote?
Or is it just me?
I’m feeling well lumpy; I have just rooted
around in a box at the bottom and back of the wardrobe.
I should probably have known better, but I
was trying to help the industrious Mary P (head archivist) in her mission to
bring order to the disordered.
And whilst we are on the subject, did
anyone hear the BBC news the other day?
“Thieves in Greater Manchester who dug a 50
foot tunnel under a Tesco supermarket in Salford stole eighty thousand pounds
from a cash point. Police have appealed to the public who may have seen people
acting suspiciously in the early hours of Friday morning, possibly covered in
soil.”
And find it very funny?
Or is it just me?
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6 comments:
Pete Seeger Day here in my living room, so here you go to accompany your giggles about dirt-covered robbers. http://youtu.be/RXAFfgujKm8
Ah, that's perfect thanks Anne.
It was the 'possibly covered in soil' that tickled me.
Do you always remember having written these archival elements? Is the person of 30 years ago still a part of you, or have you let that part go in exchange for another that has replaced it?
It's a two part progress.
Part one - search through the cupboards and drawers, get distracted, find stuff that sparks a "i like that" and others a "what was that about?" and post one of them depending on my mood.
Part two - slip in some things that i wrote yesterday but what to appear detached from just to confuse things.
there's a third part too i guess - trying to work out if i am who i think i am.
not 'what' but 'want'
Oh, aren't we always making up a story about who we are. I sometimes ditch too much, and kick myself for having lost whole phases of my life because I didn't produce anything permanent, and friends who could remember are far away. So I can see the benefit of archives. Enjoy your treasure hunt!
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