He collected memories like some people collected baseball cards: pouring over them under a harsh white light in the deep of night, caressing them with gloved hands so has not to mar the surface, displaying them in archival quality cases, and always imagining the one that slipped away.
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."
~George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
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