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34.Do you have (or ever had) an uncommon object in your possession?

 Ambergris

(a very small piece)

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31.Any thing that encouraged or enabled you to stay put in a certain state of mind? Something that proved to be an anchor, a reminder, a carrier, or a barrier?

Body hair is my anchor

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30.Something, which is a commodity by every definition of the word, but you approach or understand it otherwise?  

this 2 p coin balances my clothes cupboard in my bedroom

its modest value -although that is relative- balances & holds a world of drawers straight  

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28.An object, which in your opinion should never have existed in the first place? 

maybe a gun would be even less desirable (as in existence) but I never understood the electric knife 

if one would need an electric knife, for sure the food would be inedible 

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27.A thing, which you always held dear or close, but never used even once? 

a little scraper with a wooden handle made from a stick

it feels very old, 

handmade

but I have no purpose for it (at least for now)

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26.An object that you always essentially possessed but never bought yourself even once? 

ties

(& I never wear them as well)

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25.Any object that you instantly need to replace with a similar one (a copy or a replica) as soon as it disappears from your reality (through expiry, loss or use)? 

sellotape 

(in itself already a very festive word)

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22.Did you experience an object that helped you think out of the box? Which pushed you to discover a mind’s elasticity? 

probably the biggest cliché but books, especially when I started reading myself -which was a big feat, I’m rather dyslectic- a whole new world opened 

different ideas, different approaches; books made me think, made me consider & definitely made me think out of the box 

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21.Do you have an object that you will always keep secret? If so, may be you can give a nonvisual description of it. 

(…) 

{if you can read it you know}

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20.Did you ever see a thing/object in distant past, but never again? The type of thing of which you only have a fading memory so fleeting that sometimes you question yourself if it was a real thing in first place or just a figment of your imagination?

a small golden hand that looked as an octopus, covered with some sheepskin & bound by a red string 

(my aunty had it in her boudoir, I think it has to do with Jacob & Abraham in the Thora)

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16.Did you ever encounter an object that proved to be the only barrier between you and death? Or between your current existence and some other level of existence? 

I will not explain, I do not want to get jinxed,

it is a simple, white plastic shopping bag, 

one of this you get on the market when you buy vegs

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15.Do you have a disobedient object in your environment? 

(this is the weirdest knife on my desk, I got it from a friend, but I have no use for it, actually I do not know how to use it, I cut myself several times with it, it looks so innocent but it is razor-sharp, I whisper, I think it can hear me)

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13.Is there a thing in your possession that you may call alien?

I actually do not know what this is, nor the material

I found it on my walk in the South Spanish countryside

it looks like twisted legs, is it plastic, bone, glass, I really cannot say

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12.If you were to start a personal museum or collection, what would it contain? 

it most likely already exist somewhere,

I cannot be the only one, loving scissors

they are so animated, 

they look like birds with gigantic beaks 

& of course they are extremely versatile instruments,

but that goes almost without saying (right?!)

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10.Any man-made object that was designed so well that it had the sensitivity, balance, proportions, function or the poise of a living being? 

beach combing comes naturally & gives great satisfaction, I like most things but I only bring home ropes & nets, or, well, pieces of ropes & nets, they wash up on the beach, transformed by the sea, their function & edge gone, they are like little animals from an unknown, but familiar group of fauna 

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9.An object that remains nonexistent in material world, yet exist as somehow real in your emotional, psychological, or intellectual space?

it’s the great, all loving dog goddess hound,

holding the whole earth by her paws.

& I am her devoted accolite 

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7.Did you ever raise or grow any object? 

when my father died I got his wedding ring

when my great uncle died I got his family ring

(my mother’s family)

my jeweller friend made them into one ring

when I showed my mom the ring she cried

it was the first & last time I saw her cry

I wear the ring every day

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5.An object that has a hidden past that you have always been curious about?  

these are my father’s younger brother’s shoes

they are small, one fits easily in my hand

brown patent leather with different strings

they tell a story of escape, of longing, of missing & of brotherly love

but still, I do not know my uncle