Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 20 Mar 2015 08:39:39pm
re: Doctor Meng i have to know !!
My first response was to also think "Wow" what a great collection.
But after a while a thin sense of sadness seems to have crept in.
I am thinking of what it would mean to receiver packets from several new issue sources every month with hundreds of stamps to sort and mount. How much time would it take, or could be allotted to really looking at a set of stamps and enjoying them. How much time would be allocated to searching auction catalogs to find and prepare a bid sheet for those needed to fill a space. How about keeping some kind or organized listing of what is there or is wanted. What time would it take to write up some notation so that the stamp is identified should someone ever open one of those binders.
What an interruption a visit of some grandchildren would be to keeping up with last months arrivals before this months deluge arrives.
Would there be any time to just sit down and thumb through some favored country's binder and recalling that day twenty years ago when some particular page was laid out and completed, recalling the show or small storefront dealers shop and the chat with a like minded collector.
I am not sure, but just considering the Herculean task of keeping it all together seems more like work then enjoyment.
I really hope that those thoughts are wrong and the good doctor had the time to study some issue and then wonder if it was related to some other issue from a neighboring nation or in response to some political event. I hope he had the time to write out his thoughts about whatever hotch-potch of subjects popped up in his favorite club bulletin or on-line discussion group. I hope he had the time and enjoyed being able to pause from the unrelenting process of filling those spaces to chat with some newbie about how to tell whether the latest issue from Outer Thumbelina's subject was a ferret or a fox, photo or litho or one of the bogus issues sold by unhappy members of the Thumbelina People's Independent Freedom Party. (TPIFP )
And then the thought of having those dozen young assistants helping to handle the new issues. Did I say "handle," perish the thought.
But their aid would dilute the pleasure that I get "handling" stamps that I get, regardless of how cute and enthustiastic they were.
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