Hmmm....

      It has occurred to me that yesterday was Anna's birthday. I guess she's 26 now, providing my memory has gone entirely into the crapper. Strange the way some things stay in your head, as much you'd think they wouldn't. Hope she had a good day.

      ‘We need military precision. We are fighting a war against oblivion. Every time someone forgets you, a part of you dies.’ --- from Tibor Fischer's The Collector Collector, with thanks to Filisida for reproducing a passage from it on her blog; I'm inclined to think there's some truth to such an assertion.