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August 11, 2009 |
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Debauched Love
FOUND by Makala
in Mishawaka, IN
I was checking out a copy of A Million Little Pieces by James Frey at the public library and when I got home this note fell out of the book.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
i'm intrigued by the deliberate nature of the torn edges. how odd.
[first!]
.."it's a little to little
it's a little too late..."
[second! ha. Whoo.yippee.] :-|
the deliberate nature of the torn edges and the deliberate refusal to capitalize "I" annoy me greatly.
But really, who hasn't been there before?
A lot of break-up or "baby I luve ya" notes lately. But it's better than lists, indeed.
The edges look almost drawn. The edge creases are far too deliberate for chance. They are perfectly vertical, while the centre is randomly crumpled. Was this "I'm sorry I tore your heart in two" note created by an art major?
Yeah, well, just don't hurk me again!
Apart from the edges, those brackets are way too square to be honest.
Welllll, I guess we can get back together,
ifffffff, you promise that you will always hate yourself.
Traditionally, papyrus is laid at right angles, except for Maumee River papyrus naturally enough. There in Indiana it is made with the fibers at not quite 90 degrees just because they can. This example - a late 1900's C.E. suicide note - shows the vertical fibers coming in from the upper left of the sheet, which was the usual format for notes and letters in which the author had 'left' or would be leaving (either literally or metaphorically or - as with suicide notes - permanently). Archaeologists specializing in that time period tell us that this sort of visual pun was typical of the Hoosier peoples.
Please do not use me.
I don't work properly.
Oh, and here's Wikipedia's take on the book
http://tinyurl.com/5zz8pp
Looks like they fed in a shredder and pulled it out. Whoever did the shredding may have intended to follow through the first time after that it became an attempt at being too cute...
I believe the writer was attempting to write song lyrics.
Or really bad poetry.
These are partial lyrics to a song Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown duet seen as a sequel to "I will always love you" that was going to be used for on failed attempt to remake of "A Star is Born"
Notice how the two last lines are perfectly centred in their spaces? I think the person ran the edges of the page thru the shredder as Salty Chief suggests, but then used the mangled piece to write on. Sort of a metaphor of what they've put the other person through. Far too much thought went into this. And yes, the brackets look strange and wrong.
Someone's been rifling through Oprah's trash. Sorry, James, you're not forgiven for making Oprah seem gullible.
P.S. It's not you, it's me.
that's my take on it too, Salty Chief. Definitely shredder marks. and i agree taht there's been too much thought, it belies the honesty.
it's not me, it's you.
I think it's a PostSecret. PostSecret devotees often confess to hiding anonymous 'secrets' in the pages of library books
This is how I feel lately.
And I agree that it may be a PostSecret.
Yay, Mishawaka, the town where I was born! Shout out to the family I left behind.
Oprah does (or did, at one point) have a home not too far from this find (in Rolling Prarie IN.)
However, taken at face value, it is rather sad.
I forgive you. Don't hate yourself. I miss you, too.
Easy to spot the fotgery. Writing does'nt follow the crippling.
am i the only one who thinks this look fake?
Kiana, you are not alone. I count at least 4 commenters besides me who are of the same sort of opinion.
It looks like the person put the paper into the shredder and then pulled it out just before reaching the words. I don't know how else you'd get such torn edges.
I think Makala in Mishawaka is a lying liar! The paper looks like one of those fake crumbled papers used by digital scrapbookers.
example for those who are too cool to know about digital scrapbooking: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mgxHTvT2bDI/R-f6LjgdGbI/A
sigh, I broke the link... making me go to all this work for bit.ly, man
http://bit.ly/MakalaIsALyingLiar
This is a very pretty little piece. It's intriguing that it fell out of THAT book.
it's pretty clear that's all digital.
i think that Makala in Mishawaka, IN gotcha pretty good there, foundmagazine.