My name is Eric. I'm at the end of my third decade. Fortunately, I've gotten a haircut since that picture was taken.
Much of what we know about people, especially dead ones - although I do not consider myself to be in that category - comes from material culture.
So.
Here is an incomplete list of various items on my desk at this moment: a Mac Performa 6115CD with peripherals, Mind's Eye Theatre: Laws of the Night, Classical World 92.3 (Jan./Feb.1999), a photo of my beloved and me in a Salem graveyard, BiGod20's "On the Run" EP, a Snoopy ruler, an empty bottle of Black Toad Dark Ale, Liddell & Scott's Greek English Lexicon (both Middle Liddell and Great Scott), a clock-radio, purple Battlemechs, a FolkTales bat finger-puppet (with punk rock collar and origami samurai helmet), the Boston University library's copy of Cornelius Tacitus Annalen Bd. III. Buch 11-13. hrsg. v. E. Koestermann (Heidelberg, 1967), the Silmarillion, hot pink Post-It notes, a clay gargoyle, the Good News Bible, a coupon for $1 off general admission to the Peabody Essex museum in Salem, a College of Wooster pewter mug full of pencils, all three volumes of the Loeb Ammianus Marcellinus, a Gypsy Moon catalog, a pair of tickets to a Love and Rockets show on Lansdowne Street, tax forms, The Square Deal vol. 19 no. 2 (through Feb. 10, 1999), a winter 1999 schedule (obselete) for the 47 bus (Central Sq. Cambridge to Broadway Station), "blank" books partly filled with handwritten short stories, a jar of Morello cherries, 1997 abstracts for the American Philological Association, a medallion commemorating the coronation of Talymar II in A.S. XVII in the Barony of Flaming Gryphon, Anne Rice's The Vampire Armand, a cheap metal skull ring from a supermarket vending machine, red construction paper, Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, Kipling West's Halloween Tarot, a box of assorted useless coins (pennies, Deutschmarks, new pence, etc.), candles, my checkbook, an electric pencil sharpener, Gun Metal Nutra Nail - completely dries in 60 seconds, Barbara Levick's Claudius (New Haven & London, 1990), and two Playmobil Vikings.
I need to clean my desk.
Begin at the very beginning, a very good place to start
