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I've been thinking more about manuscripts, preservation and the digital age. There was a verrrry interesting post on Wayne McEvilly's website about his correspondence with Anais Nin, and she herself describes how she preserved her own letters for prosperity. He has a PhD in Music & Metaphysics. How cool is that?
I read Delta of Venus when I was a teenager and was greatly disturbed, I suppose because of the time of my life I was at and what was going on yada yada.
Perhaps it ought to be dug out again....
And how do I preserve things myself? Letters: kept in their envelopes and tied with ribbons. Anything else is kept in binders and usually colour coded and carefully post-ited to hell. My notebooks are also full of keepsakes...train tickets, even, from London, Berlin.
3 comments:
So intrigued by the perturbing effects of Delta of Venus!
I think I mostly preserve things by putting them in the attic and forgetting about them.
when we moved into our old house, among the rest of the rubbish there was an entire giant bound manual on how to fly a commercial airplane... cool or what!
And yeah, go buy yourself a little new year present. Although if I still have mine (I think I kept it), I could just post it over and you can bury your face in it and smell my fear.
Not quite the same thing, but you remind me I was thinking today how if books "turn Kindle" there'll be no second hand books! No browsing in search of a mind blowing surprise! The prospect is just too boring.
I'd forgotten about D of V. I too read it as a teenager.
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