"When anything truly important happens in your life, where ever you happen to be, find a stick in he immediate vicinity and write the occasion and date on it. Keep them together, protect them. There shouldn't be too many; sort through them every few years and separate the events that remain genuinely important from those that were but no longer are. You know the difference. Throw the rest out.
When you are very old, very sick or sure there's not much time left to live, put them together and burn them. The marriage of sticks."
The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll.
If this book is anything for me, it's the clanging of a thousand frying pans one after the other after the other.
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