The situation arose in the recent past where someone was looking for a particular author here at the store. When I looked him up I found that I had read one of his books, The Family Of Pascual Duarte , some twenty years ago. I, however, have no real memory of what the book was about and anything more than the title. Had the person not asked I might never have thought about the book again. I wonder if this has or will happen to things I have made. I know well that there are things I will never see again, but how many things have I fully forgotten. Similarly I long to rediscover my own work in some other venue, to be able to say to myself or anyone else that I made that. There is a chance for this, as I have given much away and even sold some works. I certainly wouldn't be offended to see my work stolen even (but I might learn to regret that). So I have a fair amount of stuff out in the world that I should have unique and intimate knowledge of; will I ever see it again and how will it make me feel? I should also mention this may have actually happened to me. I saw a picture on line that could be my own. It is a drawing of a bat. I am not fully convinced it is mine. The style is close but not so dead on that I will swear its mine. It is also, like mine, done from a generic bat picture that has probably been making the rounds since the 70's if not longer. It is more than conceivable that many people have used it for fodder in their own work. I suppose there is a way I could check but I might prefer not knowing. ciao r.