the Lifebox
(from 28viii25, updated 15viii26)

(I draw upon Rudy Rucker's formulation of 'lifebox')

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So what is this. or what does it aspire to become? A personal Archive. A stab at Legacy. A grand Project.... I wrote this in the Narrative: (January 2022):

(Rucker's original description) ...surely pointed me in the direction of building a personal manifestation as a hypertext, sculpting material (and immaterial) into a sort of auto-biography, organizing and improving accessibility (and thus interconnection) among memories and exemplars and realia, in a Borgesian space, fractal in that the detail appears as you look into it, and seems to go on and on. And of course it's perpetually Under Construction...

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The architectonics and organization of the Lifebox are works in progress, the various galleries subject to rearrangement. A visit to the Lifebox should be like wandering in a museum: one can't see EVERYTHING in a single visit, and the labyrinthine layout is daunting to navigate. One's energies begin to flag... one promises self to return ...someday.

And meanwhile the curators have all sorts of wonders in storage spaces and arrayed on backstage workbenches... their work continues, joyously.

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**Essentials**

of Space and Time
oook blog
vital cartoons
a Garden of Quotations
MYKeywords
curiosa
Tracking with Closeups

**Projects In Process**

Musics
Plantæ
lexicon
ontology
photography

**writings**

Convivium (2018-2024)
Conundrum (2026)
?What do I think..? exchanges with David MacInnes (2026)

Class Reports
60th Class Report augmented (2025)
55th Class Report augmented (2020)
50th Class Report augmented (2015)
45th Class Report augmented (2010)

The Yellow Pads
[last-page summary/index]

31vii26 - 26iv26
25iv26 - 29x25
29x25 - 5 iv25
4iv25 - 18x24
18x24 - 25x23

the first yellow pad (begins 19viii18)

Other Media
(not sure what/how)
[journals, Moleskines, notes to oneself...]

**Booooks**
and
collection development

**oook.info**
[where it all lives]
Washington & Lee years (1992-2005) and 2005 onward to today

Links from Former Days
1971-2006

perspectives on oook.info:
the last 20 years of Folders/directories explored

Found while exploring oook.info filespace
(the Ears of the Hippopotamus)

**Keeping Found Things Found**

the et cetera list
(August 2024)

Tracking with Closeups
(2025-2026 link curation)

**Curator's Notes To Self**

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The Lifebox is a hypertext, a landscape of links,
a glorious macramé of interlinked threads.
It's meant to be explored, wandered in, enjoyed;
and it's an invitation to converse,
a kitty kitty.

For me it's a ongoing summary of a lot of years
(36 since we left Nova Scotia, 20+ since I retired and we moved to Maine)
...of which I continue to try to make sense.

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