This is fascinating. I am very intrigued. The bits and pieces of communication and other scarps of information have my brain jumping at possible connections.
Have you thought of looking at the Muggle philosopher Martin Heidegger who wrote about being toward death? Or perhaps he truly was a wizard...I've wondered.
In reference to your request of me, I hope the following thoughts prove helpful. If they aren't let me know, and I can go back and re-read.
As for the scraps from the library/archive, you might want to discuss if the letters are kept separately from the other collection. I'd think that magical cataloging would need to account for charms on the papers/manuscripts, that one author had a feud with another so it makes shelving difficult. Is the above record a catalog card? or in a bound volume?
Also, and it may be different for Wizarding libraries, but Muggle archives, at least the archives I've been in here in the US, file papers chronologically. Perhaps there's a magical reason for them to have been filed alphabetically.
On the topic of cataloging, the type of paper or parchment might be important, also the ink color, the handwriting, water marks, those sorts of things. Perhaps there's a soup can label that's filed with the papers because of a magical signature. I'd think magical archives would collect and catalog all sorts of oddities, Muggle and magical. The Muggle oddities might also be mis-cataloged.
Fascinating play with the idea that there's hidden knowledge if we only knew how to put the pieces together again. Looking forward to more.
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Date: 2008-06-15 12:54 pm (UTC)Have you thought of looking at the Muggle philosopher Martin Heidegger who wrote about being toward death? Or perhaps he truly was a wizard...I've wondered.
In reference to your request of me, I hope the following thoughts prove helpful. If they aren't let me know, and I can go back and re-read.
As for the scraps from the library/archive, you might want to discuss if the letters are kept separately from the other collection. I'd think that magical cataloging would need to account for charms on the papers/manuscripts, that one author had a feud with another so it makes shelving difficult. Is the above record a catalog card? or in a bound volume?
Also, and it may be different for Wizarding libraries, but Muggle archives, at least the archives I've been in here in the US, file papers chronologically. Perhaps there's a magical reason for them to have been filed alphabetically.
On the topic of cataloging, the type of paper or parchment might be important, also the ink color, the handwriting, water marks, those sorts of things. Perhaps there's a soup can label that's filed with the papers because of a magical signature. I'd think magical archives would collect and catalog all sorts of oddities, Muggle and magical. The Muggle oddities might also be mis-cataloged.
Fascinating play with the idea that there's hidden knowledge if we only knew how to put the pieces together again. Looking forward to more.