This Puzzle Cache was designed by Wandafree.
In the Victorian period, people threw away things only when they were broken, abandoned glistening like quartz in the sun. A broken porcelain doll with eyes the colour of corundum or fluorite. After tips were torched to reduce bulk, a layer of cinders resembling talc was left, serving as a sealant for treasures lying beneath. Shattered glass or splintered crockery fragments resembling feldspars. Random medicine bottles in shades of apatite, sapphire and topaz. One can imagine how daughters spent their days, or what ailments afflicted the patriarch. You can work out what sorts of illnesses people had, what sorts of luxuries they enjoyed. Generic, commonplace items: Thimbles, fragments of a chamber pot, or a flap of leather from an orphaned shoe; a portrait of someone’s life. In the current cultural moment, nearly everything is disposable on a global scale.
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