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There is a saying that for any kind of object, no matter how strange and bizarre, you will always find a person who collects it. My uncle Y was one of these persons - he devoted himself to collecting visiting cards. However, he set upon himself one strict rule which must be obeyed when obtaining the cards:
"Get the card directly from the person, whose details are written on it, and preferably, through the natural process by which the card issuer intends to distribute his cards. For example, a businessman should hand you his card as he hands it to any other businessman with whom he may, potentially, do business one day."
Now, I know what's your next question
is going to be. You say, yes, but in the "natural process", as your uncle Y calls
it, people expect you to hand them a card in return. So what did he do? Well, my
uncle Y was a logical person, and anticipating this, he issued himself a visiting
card bearing, of course, his full name, address and other contact details as well
as the title "a Visiting Card Collector", and this worked for him perfectly
well.
As his private collection grew, uncle Y has developed some ingenious ways for organizing
and maintaining it. He kept the cards in brown solid boxes and attached to each
card a lovely hand written record, containing the precise time, place and circumstances
of the "natural process". The boxes were tagged and sorted in a chronological order,
and placed upon arrays of shelves which were specifically set up for this purpose
in my uncle's small and crowded apartment.
As you probably know, the life of collectors and their families are not always strewn
with roses. I remember for instance, that once we bought him, as a birthday present,
a beautiful collection of Victorian visiting cards, the kind an English gentleman
would send in advance in order to announce his visit. It cost us a fortune, but
nevertheless my uncle sternly refused to accept our present since it violated his
strict "natural process" law.
So went the years, and the collector's boat successfully sailed in stormy seas until
my uncle passed away and went to a more comfortable residence in heaven. Then, his
eldest daughter, my dearest cousin M, decided to continue his heritage. She soon
realized that her father's methods have to be adjusted to our modern ways of conduct,
and a more liberal interpretation of the strict collector's rule should be applied
if she wants to survive as a collector. Today, she is using us, her close family
relatives, as her agents. We give her all visiting cards we get, but of course,
we are obliged to obtain them, adhering to the strict version of the "natural process"
rule. Moreover, the accompanying documentation is created with a nice computerized
Excel form and the whole workflow of adding a visiting card to her collection is
much more fluent.
Let me use this opportunity and offer you
my personal visiting
card which I dedicate to my dear late uncle Y:
Dan Levy
7 Ben Yehuda Street
Tel-Aviv 6248131
Israel
Tel: 972-(0)3-6041176
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