Visiting the forgotten
Jul. 13th, 2019 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcA few weeks ago I mentioned thoughts on how we pass away and are eventually forgotten. It may be that people are kept alive in others' memories but they too pass. Last week we walked around the Glasgow Necropolis and it was interesting to think about that: so many grand and smaller monuments largely for those whom nobody now alive ever met.
There are people in history whose work I appreciate, whom I would have been interested to interview, whatever. My wishing I could have spent time with them is ultimately no more useful than my belated thanks for their work. Knowing their name at all is mostly helpful just as a label for finding further things they did and discussing them with others. What they did becomes more important than who they were.
There are people in history whose work I appreciate, whom I would have been interested to interview, whatever. My wishing I could have spent time with them is ultimately no more useful than my belated thanks for their work. Knowing their name at all is mostly helpful just as a label for finding further things they did and discussing them with others. What they did becomes more important than who they were.
