just remember the days as long as the time that you keep

howzit

a particularly sad aspect of the demise of newspapers (and their end of days hovers, look you see) is no longer keeping cuttings or articles from them. it's all well and good everything being a free for all on the internet, but as i have said frequently we are tactile creatures. we keep hold of things because the sense, or to be honest feel, of them is as much part of the experience as the memories and what have you. 

this is all the more true with special announcements. sure, now, one can instantly use all sorts of internet stuff (apps, social media, what have you) to tell we, the people something of importance. whilst this is absolutely amazing, it adds to the rather disposable nature of the world. there's no sense of age or the importance of it no more. for example, you could be reading this one hundred or so years after i actually gone wrote it, but on a screen (or whatever you have in the future) it may well as have been written just moments before you read these very words. 

putting an announcement of some consequence in a newspaper was quite a thing. not as free and cheap as the internet to do, of course, but not that expensive. in an era before communicating with everyone everywhere all at once if you had something to say then you either phoned or sent letters to all the people you knew, or you popped a notice in the newspaper. 

weirdly it feels like it felt more personal to see an announcement in a newspaper rather than picking up on it off of some general email or social media post. yet i am aware that it has been some time since i gone done bought a newspaper as such. sure, i picked up those free ones when in that there London, and every now and then i am obliged to buy one to get a book at a lower price off of Tesco. for the latter usually the newspaper goes, unread, directly into recycling. 

indeed i am quite aware of the "irony" (more like hypocrisy) of me writing this on the internet, or what have you. still, with senses being eroded all the time in this peculiar century i don't understand and really don't care for, feel all that you can feel whilst you can.

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!