The second feature was Werner Herzog’s amazing 2010 documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams about the stunning Chauvet Caves in France and the people who work there (you have to love an archeologist who used to be a circus performer). “With all those pictures of horses and cats, that cave is just like my blog,” I said afterwards, being amusing, but ever so self-consciously so.
Still, who knows? Perhaps on a distant future day, some intrepid cyber-archeologist spelunking through the remnants of our Paleolithic Internet will follow a tenuous link, squeeze through a narrow portal, fall through a deep darkness of corrupted information, land with a thump in a site that was blocked off millennia before by successive landslides of more fashionable social media, and turn on his/her torch-program to illuminate my cat photos, horse pics, and writerly blatherings.One thing is absolutely certain - in 30,000 years, they'll seem a lot more interesting than they do now. :)
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