Saturday, May 20, 2006
The Abandoned Journal
Back in the fall I stumbled across someone auctioning their old teenaged diaries on eBay; this week, there's an abandoned journal by a homeless man, dating to the 1980s:
The description notes it was "found in the streets of Houston near a homeless shelter -- writings in this tablet are from the 1980s and other dates unknown -- it appears the homeless person was from France..."
I would sometimes come across stuff like this in the shipping containers when I worked briefly in Hay-On-Wye. There'd be these random personal notebooks that got swept up into estate sales and the like. It always unnerved me a bit -- not the voyeurism -- but the way people's journals become unstuck from their families and friends, and... swept out to sea, you might say.
The description notes it was "found in the streets of Houston near a homeless shelter -- writings in this tablet are from the 1980s and other dates unknown -- it appears the homeless person was from France..."
I would sometimes come across stuff like this in the shipping containers when I worked briefly in Hay-On-Wye. There'd be these random personal notebooks that got swept up into estate sales and the like. It always unnerved me a bit -- not the voyeurism -- but the way people's journals become unstuck from their families and friends, and... swept out to sea, you might say.
