First off, apologies for the artsy-fartsy address of this blog. Now I know that many who know me will have come to expect this sort of toffee-nosed, presumptuous behaviour from me, but you have to believe me: this time I was really out to do things differently. Low-key, unremarkable, with a minimum of posing that is. Unfortunately, a number of other internutters are hogging the perfectly apt address Lost & Found and a number of variants, which wouldn't have annoyed me so much if they were actually putting their blog to (good) use. Now we have "Yvonne", a "girl in her teen years" using up our alternative 'Forgotten Memories', who hasn't posted anything since March 2003 and may not even be a teen anymore for all we know.
So, I am asking for your forbearance and understanding in this matter, as I guess this blog will be starting off on an "O we're so very intellectual and we know it" tip after all. All I can do is promise that future content will be as free from snobbery as the address is full of it. Honestly.
So, what is the blog actually about? Basically, it is about random memorabilia that get wedged between the pages of a book, perhaps as a bookmark or just for temporary storage, are subsequently not removed from the book again by its owner, but rather are left to languish in this forgotten state, until Luc or I stumble upon said memorabilia by chance through a new second-hand acquisition. The things we have found in books over the years range from the mundane or quirky to the bizarre and astonishing, as this blog will detail. We intend to reconstruct as much as we can about the life history of the owners of the books and the memorabilia themselves on the basis of these scant but sometimes extremely rich lines of evidence. Join us on our attempts to tease out meaning from lost memories!
