25th November 2013, 10:03 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:What about ideas? Those moments of inspiration? They're all in danger of getting lost. I've managed to 'gift' a few that I'll never get around to publishing to other people (one just got incorporated into someone's PhD, for instance), but I've still got plenty in my head/notes on a laptop/scribbled in notebooks, mostly based on my own experience so unlikely to be replicated in the same form by anyone else. Some may be insane, some may not, time will tell, but only if the ideas are preserved in some way. HER's really aren't geared up for that kind of stuff, they wouldn't know how to file it!
This thread is getting more obtuse by the moment. What about the smell of an archive? The memory of a dream? A whispered half-promise in a corridor? Should someone set up a means of preserving them for us too? Let's face it, there is no certain way of preserving things that are vague and unfinished apart from making sure all your notes/jottings/data make perfect sense and are as clear as can be. Can we all manage that? Of course we can't, we're human beings! Who doesn't have piles of notes that might be of some use to someone some day?