Is there anything more frustrating than losing something you've written?
I wrote a review for the blog here, of a Harold Pinter play that I saw not too long ago. I began writing the review the night of the play while it was all fresh in my mind. I thought I had clicked "Save as Draft" but it's nowhere around. I must have intended to save it as a draft.
While a part of me wants to put down in to writing some of what I found compelling and disturbing in the Pinter play, another part of me thinks, "Ah, hell. What's the point?"
Only time will tell if I will write down my thoughts about it. Tonight I'm off to another play.
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One night, many, many years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night from a really, really odd and interesting dream. There were piles of dead bodies, a post-apocolyptic landscape, roaming packs of...something, and God and Satan, though I don't remember the details or how any of this fit together. I thought, what a fantastic story this would make, so instead of rolling over and going back to sleep, I spent the next hour or two writing it. Then I went back to bed.
This was in the days before I had a personal computer, but I had (and still have, back at home) an old Smith-Corona word processor. You could type on it, and it had a little 10-line screen for a monitor and small (smaller than floppy discs) memory discs. I stored it on one of them 'cause I didn't want to print it in the middle of the night. (It was slow and noisy.) When I went back to it, I found that the disc menu said that the document was there, but it wouldn't allow me to open it. I agonized over this for years and still do. I could never recall or recreate that dream or story. (The one detail I do remember is that at the end, God is revealed to have gone insane, and Satan is the good guy. He says to God, "In another lifetime, we could've been friends." I thought it was really cool.)
A few years back, I sent the disc out to Boston to Knapik, who said he had an old Smith-Corona word processor and thought he could get the document off the disc for me. But I haven't heard back from him since. (Hmm...maybe there's a story in that.)
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