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The thing that strikes me about every old toolbox I have been shown is that the stones are the most worn objects in it. Hollowed in the middle,…
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There is a block of cut stone with two steps in it outside a house on a street I walk down, standing at the edge of the sidewalk…
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Every man in my family's old photographs is wearing the same thing under his clothes, and you can tell because of the neckline. A row of buttons, a…
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There is a flat grey stone about the size of a book in a box in my family, with a bent wire handle set into one end, and…
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It was a better box than anything being sold as a box, and it was free.
Thin cedar or mahogany, proper corners, a fitted lid, a printed…
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The music box I remember was in a parlour I was not supposed to be alone in, and the thing that fascinated me was not the sound but…