05.18.05
How low?
For the past week or more I have been vaguely searching (or searching vaguely; or, now I think of it, both), for a lost Thing around the house.
This happens to me all the time. I think it happens to most of us. I’m sure, o best of readers, o noblest of the members of the shadow republic, that it has even happened to you.
I’ve even got a queasy feeling that, books aside, most of my world consists of Things that are actually lost around the house. Of course, most Things being sufficiently large, and the house sufficiently small, they can quickly be found if and when really needed.
However, this Thing (a Bert Jansch CD, as it happens), is small, and so its lostness has managed to persist for a near record-breaking number of days.
Things get lost. This is not my point. My point is how low I have sunk, how far my arms (metaphorically) have shrivelled. I caught myself a few minutes ago thinking brightly to myself, “I know! I’ll search for it on Google.”
Results of your search for “Bert Jansch”
1. Main bookcase in the front bedroom, third shelf down, underneath an atlas
Now that would be a search engine.
Nick said,
May 18, 2005 at 10:06 pm
No, that would be this search engine.
Jacky said,
May 19, 2005 at 7:01 pm
Is it the one with Jack Orion? It’s gone down the back of the
radiator in your kitchen.
Jon said,
May 20, 2005 at 7:46 am
Worse than that, far worse. I found it last night and it was (I shudder) exactly where it should have been in the first place. I don’t know where to be more pleased or disturbed.
Tom Reynolds said,
May 21, 2005 at 11:11 pm
Look to the left. It is an amusing thing that most folk find stuff to the left of center of vision invisible.
Oh…and I can hypnotise people in about 10 seconds as well.
Knowledge of the human brain makes it _really_ easy to date…