Now that Book XXV of my Residua is available on the Web, soon to be followed by the remaining two-dozen books going all the way back to 1976, I find myself drawn to it like a magnet. I especially enjoy using the search function, which is already useful with close to seventy-thousand words in Book XXV alone. Of course, this function will be crucial in navigating the entire text, which will reach one-million words in a few years. At any rate, I just realized that it would be interesting to list all the words, most of them names, which I have searched for the last few hours. Here they are (in alphabetic order, for I am not sure any longer in which order I actually searched for them): Billy (Childish), (Bob) Collén, (Joe) Crompton, dream, father, (Grand) Inquisitor, Sophie (Calle), Tracey (Emin). Given my current preoccupations, the list is hardly surprising. The only exception is my father. Since the summer of 1999, when his senile dementia had reached such an advanced stage that my mother and I could not take care of him at home any longer, he has been living in a nursing home for the mentally infirm. My mother visits him once a week and I go with her every three weeks or so. As witnessed by my search, he is on my mind much more often.

Addendum (April 21, 2016)

I am happy to have come across this particular piece in one of my random searches through my writings. It shows that I have relished the search function from the day the writings appeared on the World Wide Web. This way, I can search everything at once, which is an amazing step forward by comparison with the past. All my writings are divided into yearbooks, each of which appears in a separate file on both my laptop and desktop computers. Searching through individual files can be quite a chore, of course. As years go by, the inconvenience only grows as the number of files increases. At the moment, there are as many as forty-one of them. The search function is most handy when I am going through content analysis of sorts. In such cases, I am interested in everything I have ever written. The listing of all the pieces in which a particular search word or phrase appears is no less than priceless. In short, having all my writings on the web is quite a boon for me, for I often search for something or other in them. Besides, Google Analytics now offers me an exhaustive listing of all the search words and phrases I have used in the last month. Priceless, to be sure.