At About This Time Last Year

I am very fond of the examination of history.  It is for this reason that I have been looking back today at the various events of last year.  Were you at the Mozarty Party's World Peace and Policy Forum last February, by any chance?  It was ...

...such a wonderful event.  If you were not there, you certainly missed out on being an important part of world history yourself.

What is history, in your view, dear reader?  My library, of course, contains many historical records, a large proportion of which are unique and therefore priceless.  Perhaps all documents, in one way or another, are historical records, including the shopping list I have just inscribed in my best humanist minuscule handwriting on Florentine paper, using a well-sharpened quill and a fresh supply of iron gall ink.  Perhaps you even illuminate your own shopping lists on scraps of parchment, vellum, papyrus or clay.

Mr Haydn writing his shopping list

Whether you have outstanding skills as a calligrapher or as a decipherer of texts, or even as a decipherer of people and their behaviour, it is necessary to interpret events.  Do you usually interpret events in accordance with appropriately insightful methods of collecting and recording what you believe to have occurred?  Perhaps you may do so in an audio recording, a video recording, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional work of art, in words, in pictures, in mime, sign language, statistical and mathematical data, or the manuscript of a musical composition, such as a sonata.

As you may have noticed, the Duke and Duchess of Wikipedia have been helping me again today.  They are aware of the necessity to encourage all seekers of enlightenment to visit their library.  Mr Joseph Haydn has been seeking some information there himself this week, to enable him to assist me more appropriately here.  He has been highly amused to find a scroll of his own biography.

My autobiography, of course, is not available to the general public.  It is to be found only in a unique collection of codices.  These are only available to be viewed by suitably qualified eminent scholars, subject not only to suitable fees for such privileged and exclusive access, but also in accordance with the strictest requirements of preservation and conservation.

If you are unlikely to gain the opportunity to read my autobiography, or even my shopping lists, the following links may be of some consolation to you:

This blog-pamphlet's postings last February

Adelaide Adagia last February

The Mozarty Party last February

Women of Some Importance last February


And you are always welcome to visit my library, the parlour, or even my peaceful salon.  You may even  take a few refined and elegant steps towards becoming a suitably qualified scholar.