I'm reading a book by Geraldine Brooks at the moment called Foreign Correspondence: A Memoir. The first part describes her correspondence with her various pen-pals as a child and teenager, and then the second part is her journey to track down these pen-pals after she finds all their letters when cleaning out her parents' house. And I thought: what will happen to us? We write to people all round that world and I'd love to do what Geraldine did sometime and track down these people I've only met across the internet - but there's not going to be a collection of messages in my parents' house for me to find. They might not even survive on-line. I love the immediacy of LJ and emails - but they're not very archivable.
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Date: 2008-08-29 11:26 pm (UTC)