My CollectionDo you have display cabinets full of stuff? With it all neatly labelled, cross-referenced and entered into a database. Have you been to a convention? Do other collectors look up to you in awe?
I thought I was above this one. I'm not that autistically geeky that I have a Collection with a capital C. But no, I remembered I'm hoarding away every version of "Inside Macintosh" ever published.
What do you collect? And why? I mean, what makes you do it?
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chthonic, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 16:52)
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Dusty collectionI have a very valuable and unique collection. It’s all a bit dusty these days, but hardly a day goes by without me pulling out one or other item, polishing it off, sometimes sharing it with others and carefully filing it away again.
I am, of course, dear readers, talking about my collection of youthful memories. Last week I was very busy so didn’t get a chance to share my many failures with you, but one of them was my failure to become a writer. As I travelled around Europe in the early 1980s, I kept a series of diaries in scrawled biro in school-type notebooks. My intention was to turn them into a novel, I even had a title: ‘Master of None’. Sadly, the notebooks now reside in my locker at work and although I never wrote the book, I have at last found a publisher for my work…B3ta QOTW.
Another gem from the collection later I hope. I will be picking up the trail of young Che as he went up into the Alps in December in search of bar work in the ski resorts…
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 9:26, Reply)
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