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Writing for posterity is a daunting prospect... But, whether we know it or not, and like it or not, this is what we do, even when we post on here, too.

Yes, I think of that often. It gives you pause. I have no journals or writings of my ancestors. Quite different now.

It used to be only professional writers had to worry about such things, no more. We all live outloud, now, and might taste immortality...