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Necessity and nostalgia

Why do we keep things? To remember.
Bedside tables are our modern-day altars, places where habit, respect, mystery, and love collide. Our physical materials wait while we travel through dreams, coaxing us back into activity come morning. Books and remote controls summon sleep, alarm clocks and written reminders startle the mind into a wakeful state. But not all objects are directly linked to sleeping or waking; some things simply exist to comfort us, reflecting our need to gather, collect, and nest.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uiowa.edu/oai:ir.uiowa.edu:etd-2491
Date01 May 2011
CreatorsWelch, Allison Pearl Snow
ContributorsSnitzer, Jim
PublisherUniversity of Iowa
Source SetsUniversity of Iowa
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
SourceTheses and Dissertations
RightsCopyright © 2011 Allison Welch

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