moleskine archaeology
I want to assume that other people went through a phase like this, but there was a time when I actively sought out Moleskine notebooks. One of them I filled with titles. Just titles of stuff like “How to Remove a Grown Man from a Tree” and other relatively meaningless phrases. This was several years ago, and I gave it up, because I didn’t like the earning-a-merit-badge feeling of recording stray thoughts and phrases in such a handsome little thing, hoping they would count for something later. Besides, I obviously have a blog now.
My relationship with Moleskine since then has mostly been one of excavation, disavowal, and destruction. In other words, whenever I find an old Moleskine, I flip through it and tear out most of the pages I’ve written on. Then I throw the pages away. I try to have a look of distaste while I do it, because I think that is how I am supposed to look. Not necessarily in general (though maybe), but with this.
Anyway, I just found this list in an old notebook, and I think I stand by it:
I like:
pianos
meat
tawdry affairs
simpleton [sic]
dead horses
late couriers
early inventions
