“The world is full of things like that: old postcards, theatre programmes, leafles about bomb-proofing your cellar, greetings cards, photograph albums, holiday brochures, instruction booklets for machine tools, maps, catalogues, railway timetables, menu cards from long-gone cruise liners - all kinds of things that onced served a real and useful purpose, but have now become cut adrift from the things and the people they relate to. ~ They might have come from anywhere. They might have come from other worlds. That scribbled-on map, that publisher’s catalogue - they might have been put down absent-mindedly in another universe, and been blown by a chance wind through an open window, to find themselves after many adventures on a market-stall in our world.”
/Lyra's Oxford (preface), Phillip Pullman
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I have mild disposophobia.
But there's no place for that if you're studying overseas. Throw what needs to be thrown ok, or die moving.
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