[D]ead bodies can talk if you know how to listen to them, and they want to talk, and they want us to sit down beside them and hear their sad stories. [...] They don't want to be voiceless; they don't want to be pushed aside, obliterated. ~ Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead This is …
Of Ghosts, Dandies and Little Sailors…
So. I promised some comments on the recently posted photo-postcards. I've chosen to have a closer look at some that particularly picked my curiosity. The first would be the photograph showing the phantomatic silhouette of a woman, pasted onto a black carton "frame" with a postcard-style verso: The look of it - the silhouette fading …
Of New Beginnings…
After complaining about LiveJournal's incompetency for about half a year, I've finally decided to switch to a more - hopefully - professional blogging website. I was getting too tired of all the spam comments, the compulsory flashing ads and, most of all, the all-powerful ddos attacks under which it regularly succumbed. I have successfully managed …
The Grim-Looking Ladies
Having decided to get over the various generous offers of intimate and intensely satisfying (guaranteed!) services that are the only comments I get these days, here I am sharing yet another one of my finds with the universe. I do love flea markets, and I usually end up leaving with at least one abandoned memory …
I don’t steal memories. I buy them 30p apiece.
My long-standing hobby of rescuing/collecting other people's memories has resurfaced again. It would have resurfaced before, only, to my shame, I was unable to find the usual place in our local market selling vintage photos&postcards. It's like the magic little shop that Terry Pratchett pokes so much fun at in his Discworld novels: it would …
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Some Absurdities and NaPoWriMo Day Seven
First, I'll give myself and my bibliophile readers a treat by posting some photos of a book I purchased back in autumn. I'm talking about a 1941 edition of one of my favourite childhood books, Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I found it - as I find most of the delightful things I purchase …
Elusive Memorabilia
Here's doing something I've been postponing for a while: trying to track down the origins of old postcards/photographs. I've recently bought a new batch of memorabilia at the local market, but these ones seem to be even more mysterious than the ones I've picked up before. I'll start with those easiest to pinpoint, I guess. …
Miss Nina de Silva, Actress
I've been thinking of posting about this for quite a long time now. It all started when I was presented some old postcards, some months ago. They were all pretty and, of course, held the charm of all vintage items - little discarded treasures, keepsakes that no one wants anymore - but one of them …
Of Old Photographs and Postcards
Since there's really not much to be done these days (there's a sort of sense of futility pervading the atmosphere - perhaps it's only a personalized side effect of the Icelandic ash cloud), I've taken up (again) sorting and re-sorting old photos and postcards, as well as purchasing some more such tokens of the past …
Encyclopaedia Vanitatum 