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Preparing For Next Use

The process by which objects are cleaned and prepared for next use or next user.

Whether its plates being washed up and set on a draining board or dust bins emptied, placed on the ground and surrounded by anti-bug powder (above) or a removeable hard disk being securely wiped. To what extent is the act of preparing driven by practical or social needs?

Gulangyu Island seems to have a inordinate amount of ants, frogs and cats.

Writing from Gulangyu Island | May 11, 2006 | Permalink