You’ve got title to it, it takes up space, and most of it can’t or won’t be fixed. What can you do with it? Call me Raebert. I’m making this website because I inherited a computer and a bunch of files from a guy I met on the Internet. I knew him from his Facebook page. He seemed to post every day, multiple times as a rule, and he was very focused on political matters. I read him because he was funny if vituperative and his graphics were often clever, created in some kind of unstated code he never explained. We exchanged a few Messenger posts, where I guess he learned that I was a collector of sorts, what some would call an eclectic hoarder. I have a lot of Corgi toy cars, a drawerful of old pocket watches bought for cheap at auctions, some bad amateur artworks that struck my fancy, also at auction, and thanks to my family and attic space boxes of oddball books, a huge pile of old LP’s, a stack of VCR tapes, and a smaller pile of movies on laser disc. More, but you get...
It’s a Google map. I found it buried in his 70,000+ image files, but I can’t find where he used it. I know I’ve seen him quote the nostrum, “If you would be universal, first be local.” This map shows where he’s from in southern New Jersey and implies a broader reach than that. Northwest of the outline profile is the City of Philadelphia, a kind of headquarters of his fiction. The face suggested by the profile is indeed pointed westward toward the rest of the country. Strangely enough, this is the image file I had to keep returning to get the “bug picture” of his youth and upbringing. There’s a problem with ARIFLIP you don’t have with most writers. The thing about those 70,000 image files is that although there’s a ton of stuff in them that relates directly to his experience of life, what’s most notable is what’s missing. Missing from his writing as well as his inventory of image artifacts. Unlike the American notables of his time and before, there is no autobiographical early nov...