Tasks / Contents Of A Character's Wallet
In Jack Finney's short story, "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket", the character - clinging to the side of a building - imagines what the world will think of him if they only have the contents of his pockets to consider.
Empty your pockets, your wallet, your purse out onto a table- tally the contents and tell us what the world would think of you, if they had only those effects to consider. Then, decide upon one thing to add to the contents of your pockets, your wallet, or your purse, which will better enunciate the truth of your person to the world.
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Created by Ink Tea
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in a seventh grade anthropoligically-tinged social studies class we did this. the teacher called on me to empty my pockets, which held a reduced-price lunch ticket (a then-oh-so-embarrassing sign of my family's financial situation) and a bottle of eye drops. "what could be said about this person?" asks miss saven. (here comes the punch line?) "she was poor cause she spent all her money on douches."
i would love to do this task, but the social inequitiaties of adolescence are still too fresh in my twenty-odd-year-old mind.
everyone has more stuff in their pockets than i do
Unfortunately, I have no camera, so solely text-based LVLØ.
In the wallet:
- Damaged Independence High School ID card from last year, bent nearly in two during a protest.
- Medical Card
- Library card from 1995, still has the old logo, taped back together many times.
- "Get Out of Hell Free" card detailing the tenants of Christianity and how to not be damned.
- Burning Land Yu-Gi-Oh Card.
- The Two Of Hearts from a deck that has chickens on it for some unknown reason.
- Teaway frequent bubble tea nommer card, two out of eight slots used.
- CodeHero business card, a project that I am prsently working on.
- Business card of a photographer
- Tea shop gift card.
- Independence High School appointment day reminder card.
- 924 Gilman membership card from when I went to see La Plebe and Star Fucking Hipsters.
- Old membership card to California Academy of Sciences
- Old membership card to the De Young museum and the Legion of Honor museum.
- One dollar
- Several bus transfers
Pockets:
- One Panda*Note
- One flyer from Occupy Wall Street
- One handmade Notebook
- Glow in the dark star
- Three ballpoint pens
- Keys
- Ten dollar cellphone.
- Lighter
- Copy of Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung.
- A check for ten dollars of typewriter repairs by Daniel Kurlander.
- A copy of Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavic.
- Countless quarters for bus fair.
Praxis
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