jazzy_dave | Jotting and Collecting (Reply)

Mallarmé (the French symbolist poet) once said that everything exists to be put in a book , or in this case, an online blog. I usually put jottings down on paper,,and like the artist Joseph Cornell, that can be any scrap of paper,such as .backs of envelopes,newspapers,bus tickets,brochures,flyers and so on, but if i am really lucky and remember to bring along a small notebook,such as those famous moleskin ones,then scribblings end there. Otherwise i end up with lots of scrap paper with jottings which then get lost before they end up in the blog.

Collecting is a bug to make us insane. Even so,condition is all important, and i hark back to my old school days and having all those famous Corgi and Matchbox toys whiich i kept in their original boxes and no longer have. Vexations at the thought that a couple of them (if i still had them) are worth £500 a piece!. .

Culling some more stuff tomorrow and the next day,probably a mixture of CDs and books. After the cull today i feel a little lighter with more space to fill up once again. This needs to be done anyway as we have a small space and can get cluttered very quickly.

I suppose it is the colleccting bug that makes us do what we do. I would not go so far to say that i am a hoarder,but i do feel the painful pangs of having to shred stuff that i have bought,picked up,found etc and i doubt i would go as far to rent out space at one of these storage places so that i can keep all my acquistions.

However seeing how some things can become scarce and shoot up in value (Corgi and Matchbox toys from the sixties as an example) having such extra space could have become invaluable.