My brother Mike bought this man's picture in a beautiful little frame at an antique store a few years ago and gave him to me. There is something so poignant about this man not having a home in his descendant's houses but having to live in an antique store, hoping someone will adopt him, otherwise, he'd end up in the trash and gone forever.
Who is he, and how come no one wanted him anymore? I have been throwing stuff away recently but I can't let him down and get rid of him too. I'll have to look after him; someone abandoned him once -- I can't do it to him again.
Monday, 21 April 2008
A lonely man
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Well, we'll all love him, too, so he'll have a blogful of peeps looking after him. We need a name, though. He looks rather German to me---could he be an Otto? Or Eliz---maybe he is your long-lost HOMER!
Otto is good. He looks a bit buttoned-up and proper to be a Homer. I'll know when I come across a picture of Homer Horsedung.
I want to know what kind of life Otto had -- do you think he was happy? If he was happy and a nice man, why did no one want his photo?
TIME IS STRANGE THING. THIS MAN HAS HIS, WAS HE GOOD OR REALLY NASTY? WE WILL NEVER KNOW, BUT I HOPE HE HAD A HAPPY TIME HERE. TIME HAS MARCHED ON AND LIKE ALL BUT THEY VERY FEW OF US, HIS LIFE HAS FADED AWAY AND WE NOW ONLY HAVE THIS OLD PHOTO AS ANY TRACE.
I THINK WHEN WE SEE SOMEONE WE DON'T KNOW WE ALWAYS REFLECT BACK HOW WE WOULD LIKE TO BE SEEN. DO YOU AGREE?
MUST HAVE CROSSED YOU COMENT WHILE I WAS TYPING. THERE COULD BE A HUNDRED AND ONE REASONS NO ONE HAS KEPT IT. IF HE WAS LIKE ME, WITH NO CHILDREN, WHEN YOUR NUMBER IS UP THEN YOU JUST FADE AWAY, YOUR TIME IS DONE. THATS THE WAY TIME MOVES ON. THAT PHOTO COULD BE 100 YEARS OLD. WHO WILL REMEMBER YOU OR I IN 100 YEARS? YOU HAVE TO BE SPECIAL OR INFAMOUS TO BE REMEMBERED!
Anonymous, I didn't realize you were a philosopher!! You say some deep stuff that I am going to ponder this afternoon while I work.
I will keep your photo for you! You can stay with Otto, and I will keep you in my display cabinet with him. I don't want you to disappear totally from the Earth either. Then I will make my daughter keep you for the next generation with Otto and my mother's picture of Jesus from her childhood. My mother wanted to make sure Jesus was still on somebody's wall after she was gone so I promised and promised for my daughter too. So that's almost a hundred years taken care of right there.
x
THAT IS A VERY KIND OFFER, I MAY EVEN TAKE YOU UP IT! OR PERHAPS ITS BEST I FADE AWAY WITH THE REST.
How lovely that comment is -- to 'fade away with the rest.' Well, Anonymous, you think it over and if you find a nice photo you want me to keep, send it to E Thomas, 13 Christchurch Gardens, Reading, RG2 7AH. You have a while to think it over because I'll be there for years to come.
I HAVE FOUND THIS SITE VIA A TRAGEDY. BUT I HAVE BEEN VERY STIMULATING BY IT. I APPOLOGISE FOR MY SPELLING AS MY RELIANCE ON WORD CHECK IS SHOWING THROUGH!
We are stimulated by your comments too, Anonymous. Keep 'em coming.
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