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<?disruption> — things that need to be walked around — that can’t be seen through (‘seen through’ has multiple meanings)

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this is nonsense —

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201-202 - benjamin quote — mid section (of page)
+ quote at end of page
+ quote in footnote most of 206 & following
+ 203 quote & previous
private vs public collection
my collection is private because it has no use to the public —
compare — CDs & books — disappearing into the cloud — (i’ve never liked ‘the cloud’ metaphor but it fits here) i have a few thousand books (more or less) but i’m not really a collector of books — or music —
as it becomes possible for books to be their use value — people are buying more books — but fewer CDs — music fits better in the cloud — books will need time to reach their ‘streaming’ usefulness
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heavy rain — a beautiful darkness —
waves on the lake that has been totally calm —
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the rain quiets — patterns of rain on the window — no longer flowing —
last night a dream — we had some sort of water feature that we noted something alive in which bothered us because we thought we would have to maintain it — then there was a fish — and we knew we would have to — we had no idea how they got there — it was a large murky pond
i was looking for fish in the water yesterday — water shallow & clear — but no fish visible — the ugly clams that live in these lakes
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nice walk along the lake

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220 quote near bot classification — my museum of objects with many classifications —
the terrible mistake of quoting the umbrella & sewing machine — the table of operations — a list of worn out quotes — images etc —
bones that look like stone - wood that looks like bone — stone becomes a bowl or a vase (<?>)
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museum as cultural institution —