Like Sand Through the Hourglass
December 15th, 2003 by Will
I keep this web site for myself mostly. I come across interesting sites, or I have a thought or story I know I’ll want to remember, so I post it here.
Most times I don’t go back, but as I build an archive, more and more I find myself hitting Google and typing in a likely keyword and my site. Boom! Instant memory. Still, when I read something like this speculative analysis of the photography and life of Charles W. Cushman, I can’t help wondering what future historians might make of my life.
Will my site, all of this creative output even last, or will it all rot, an unparsable mess of ones and zeros on a server (or more likely a CD ROM or Hard Drive somewhere buried in a landfill)?
Most of my life isn’t even in this site. I deliberately leave a lot of things out. How would a stranger connect the dots? Am I too self-absorbed in even assuming that somebody might bother to try?
Of course I am, and yet we’d all like to think that we mattered, that we left some mark upon the world. I feel like Ozymandias looking out over my kingdom of sand.
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