books

These are two second hand books that I have recently bought which have handwritten messages in the front. The top book was from a charity shop in Bath which I bought specifically because it had a message in it and the second was from Amazon market place. The message in the front of this one was entirely coincidental.
Since I bought the second one I have been going into charity shops and looking for more books with messages in but I haven't managed to find any. It would take hours and hours going through every single book in a shop and as I have no way of knowing whether a book will have a message in or not, they are difficult to find! I will however, keep looking as this has really inspired me to make a piece of work.

I think I'm thinking too much.

I've been thinking a lot about memories lately and I wanted to write this down before I forgot (and just turned into another memory...?) Memories are interesting because they are so subjective. They change and morph. They are influenced by things that happen later on in your day. Is anything we remember ever an accurate account of what actually happened? And if not, how do we ever record or remember anything properly? You can't carry around a video camera where ever you go and record every single one of your actions. Or could you? It would be difficult and most probably incredibly boring to watch back! 

Also, can you implant memories? I have memories from when I was really little, maybe 3 or 4 years old. I would get into really awful tantrums and my mum would put me out in the hall. I have distinct memories of banging my head really really hard on the wooden floorboards and generally thrashing around in frustration. But do I really remember this or do I just think I remember it because I've been told about it so many times?

I have said memories far too memories in this post. I think I'm going to lie down.