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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Paper is not forever: it can be burned, cut, torn, crumpled, lost; it can rot, discolour, disintegrate; be eaten away by mice and mould. Even so, it is more enduring than what we think or what we say. It has the strength to carry words across vast landscapes and through millennia, from one person to hundreds, thousands, even millions.<\/p>\n

The Flight of Birds throughout the Air<\/h3>\n
\"Frida<\/a>

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In 1815, John Adams, the second president of the United States, wrote to his grandsons as they were preparing to cross the Atlantic to join their parents: \u201cWithout a minute Diary, your Travels will be no better than the flight of Birds throughout the Air. What you write, preserve. I have burned Bushells of my Silly notes, in fits of Impatience and humiliation, which I would now give anything to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n

I received my first diary as a going-away gift when I was seven, on my way to Brazil with my family. I wrote in it daily until I was a young woman and I\u2019ve kept one sporadically ever since. I’ve never thrown them away or burned them, but neither have I been a consistent recorder of time’s passage. When I visited Frida Kahlo\u2019s Casa Azul in Coyoac\u00e1n, I was filled with guilt and longing at the sight of her rows of boxed diaries, bulging with clippings and sketches and her impressions, what seemed like every moment of her life.<\/p>\n

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the world\u2019s great diarists, left 13,000 pages of notes containing his observations, speculations, plans, and fantasies. The printing press was brand new when he was born in 1452, and paper had just arrived in Italy 200 years before.<\/p>\n

\"Leonardo<\/a>

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What if there had been no paper? Would he have scratched his ideas in the sand? Painted them on a wall? He could have used parchment or vellum, but the skins of animals were expensive and relatively scarce, the purview of scribing monks. The supply of paper must have been limited, too, yet Leonardo didn\u2019t stint. Of his finished works, only some fifteen paintings and a few sculptures survive: his reputation rests mostly\u00a0on the enormous body of sketches and notes for his precocious inventions, all recorded for the future on paper in his mirrored script, the movement of his hand visible in the ink on the page.<\/p>\n

Virginia Woolf, Anne Frank, Goebbels, Hemingway, Samuel Pepys, Sylvia Plath, Ana\u00efs Nin, Henry David Thoreau: imagine a world without its\u00a0diarists and correspondents.<\/p>\n

Villa of the Papyrus Scrolls<\/h3>\n

Almost two thousand years ago, the eruption\u00a0of Etna buried not only Pompeii, but the town of Herculaneum and a nearby mountainside villa\u00a0belonging to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.<\/p>\n

In 1752, the villa was excavated from within\u00a0its ninety foot-foot tomb of stone and ash. Among its splendidly intact loggias and galleries was the only private library that survives from antiquity: a small room housing hundreds of papyrus scrolls stacked horizontally on shelves: 800 books in all, which some believe\u00a0represent only the anteroom to the main library of what has come to be called the Villa die Papyri\u2014the Villa of the Papyrus Scrolls.<\/p>\n

\"Herculaneum<\/a>

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Ironically, the ash that charred, then interred\u00a0the papyrus also preserved this first paper. But\u00a0in a twist that sounds like a fairy-tale curse, the second\u00a0the scrolls\u00a0are exposed to air, they start to deteriorate and disappear.<\/p>\n

In the 265 years since their discovery, various means have been used to try to soften the scrolls enough to unfurl them: rose water, mercury, papyrus juice, and, most recently, a cocktail of glycerin, ethanol, and warm water. Nothing worked.<\/p>\n

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News from an Ancient Empire: “Would Fall”<\/h3>\n

Finally, last year, the Smithsonian<\/em><\/a> reported that a Stanford physicist got permission to put one of the Herculaneum scrolls\u2014a gift to Napoleon and now housed in France\u2014through a\u00a0synchrotron, a kind of accelerator that can be \u201ctuned\u201d to look for certain particles. Like magic, the iron-gall ink\u00a0on the ancient papyrus became visible. Without physically touching the charred remains, a French team found writing scattered across the unscrolled papyrus and thus far has managed to make out one chilling phrase\u2014\u201cwould fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Digital technology, accused of killing the paper book, may yet succeed in saving a whole library.<\/p>\n

We say we \u201ckeep a diary.\u201d More to the point, a diary\u2014like a book, like a scroll\u2014keeps us on its crumbling, rotting paper pages. Such a fragile substance to carry so heavy a burden: news of\u00a0a life, a place, of time itself.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n

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Question:
\nWhat writing, preserved from the past on paper, has made an\u00a0impact on you?<\/h3>\n

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