The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away

I found this reading to be very interesting. I have never read something like this before so I was intrigued the whole time. The idea of collecting things for most of your life really connects with me. I am a big collector. I find it very hard to get rid of my material possessions so over the years I have collected so many useless things that have value to me in someway. Now I have so much stuff that it’s hard to even remember why I kept the item in the first place. I’m sure as the years go by I will slowly start to get rid of things, I hope at least.
The quote that stuck out to me the most was “ Moreover, strange as it seems, I feel that it is precisely garbage, that very dirt where important papers and simple scraps are mixed and unsorted, that compromises the genuine and only real fabric in my life, no matter how ridiculous and absurd this may seem from the outside.” I feel this quote is very true. What may look like garbage to other people may be the only “real fabric” in your life.
This reading went along really well with our collections assignments because I feel with this and the discussions we have had in class, I have a really good idea of what a collection is. It also helped me put together my final project in a way that I am happy with.

James Darwin

I chose to do my collection on a fiction character named James Darwin. The poster is a advertisement for his estate sale. Each of the items posted represents a different stage in his life. His story is from rags to riches and I feel that it accuratly represents the character pictured in my mind.

I would post the zine but my only other copy, besides the one my teacher has, is lost on a school computer somewhere.