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To: mr.mark who wrote (19947)	5/24/2001 2:08:19 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 110648

mr mark, >just the indelible brain imprint.< Well said. That's ultimately all that's left. Gottfried

To: mr.mark who wrote (19947)	5/24/2001 2:59:34 AM
From: Ed Forrest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110648

doing... the being there... that is the essence. have you ever seen people at a wedding going to great lengths to photograph every angle, every step, in order to have a permanent record of it all... the wedding photos... and what really happened was a posed event. that's the kind of thing i am thinking of. like the family that stands in front of the grand canyon and smiles for the group photo, so they can say they were there. but were they? what is it in us that makes us want to capture a moment, a sunset, a landscape, a birthday... rather than to live in it for that moment? i have been so many places and done so many things for which i have no documentation.... no proof to show anyone.... just the indelible brain imprint. we all see these things differently, i suppose. Mark Not just food for thought but a 7 course meal in that statement. A gourmet repast. Nice. Cheers Ed

To: mr.mark who wrote (19947)	5/24/2001 2:28:17 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110648

I lived in Africa for five years, and, turned off by all those expats who seemed to be taking pictures of, rather than experiencing, their lives there, took not a single photo until my final week, when I shot a couple of rolls of film. It being the third world, it turned out that the film i'd purchased was ancient, and very few of the photos turned out. I can't help but wish i'd been carrying around some unintrusive point-and-shoot dealie in my pocket for five years and had an album of snapshots to help me so many events, people, places that i've undoubtedly not remembered. Also, to me there is a fundamental difference in not recording personal sights and settings except in one's memory and not bemoaning the loss of what is a substantial library, in effect. There has been some fine writing-- humor, essays, even pieces of a literary nature-- that will never be duplicated, posted on some of the SI threads. I wish now i had been creating an archive all along. I will check out the links you gave. (I wish you'd do it first!) From reading what crow said, i'm not sure it's what i want. Which is to save a few entire threads, for culling later. Do you think you might be able to do that with your software for the CL thread?