For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.
Aleksandar HemonSometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."
Aleksandar Hemon