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OCR: The stuff of the archive makes new demands daily. Of course, the boxes need special care. Some are filled with very fragile things, others are precious, still others require handlers. There is always the question of security. I point to a random box in the archive. The archivist opens lit and pulls out a thick, leather-bound binder. She flips through the pages of individual black and white photographs. Each aerial shot documents a railway dock jutting out into the water (ocean?). The photographs look exactly the same with the exception of the shape of the shoreline and the texture of the land. A shape emerges with the flow of all that text from you to me. A booklet to browse, compiled from (1) quotations on archives (2) extracts from our e-mails (3) our comments on these, etc. They are dis ...