It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers. I hope you keep her digging into all the old boxes as long as there is ONE left.
M.F.K. FisherDipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the thing you want won't surface. But ultimately the process is a little like tapping into the unconscious, and can bring with it the ambivalent gratification of rediscovering forgotten selves.
Rather than making new pictures why can't I just recycle some of these old ones? Claim "found" photographs from among my boxes? And have this gesture signify "resistance to further production/consumption"? (96)
Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?
Christi PhillipsTag: magic old-books archives voices
Hope for the best, plan for the worst, but also try to be prepared for the unexpected.
Radovan KavickýPrezraď mi najväčších inzerentov v tvojom obľúbenom printovom médiu a ja ti poviem, čo čítaš i čo nečítaš.
Radovan KavickýĽudia, ktorých myšlienky sú nadčasové, zväčša nie sú typicky doboví.
Radovan KavickýAbsolutely nothing is as important as knowing who to trust.
Radovan KavickýWeddings are great, but they mostly end up in marriages and that is the problem.
Radovan KavickýJournalists are pretty much like European union. They don't take 'no' as an answer.
Radovan KavickýIntelektuálmi sú zväčša ľudia, ktorí sa viac starajú o stav svojej mysle než o stav svojho účtu.
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