Krapp’s Last Tape

I’m stuck on the Canon too, Frank, and have had a look at one. The question now is as it was before stumbling on Super Sunday, i.e. affordability.

However, now that pictures of The Day are filtering through, I’m left feeling that if I’m to take this photography thing seriously — I really enjoy it, how can I afford to not indebt myself for a couple of years — hoping, of course, to pay for it by a few further lucky breaks (pun intentional)?

These things, once the base cost is covered, amount to a month’s salary and justifying their outlay (even their payments) is difficult. A complicating factor is something only we parents know about — a daughter turning 21 and a son getting married towards year end.

Oh yeah, and another daughter in need of schooling. How does one duck these — when we get to the nut of it — intrinsically financial obligations?

I must say I’m grateful to be faced with such dilemmas and problems — most couldn’t dream of contemplating these things.

Insurance too is a factor. I tend to treat ’stuff’ as ’stuff’, so if somebody whacks me for my Baby Canon (a real threat that always seems to happen to others), I couldn’t care less. It’s dispensible. I’d attach greater value to a real camera, which is also more visible, so would have to be damned careful not to flash it about.

But your post has helped me immensely. I’ve written to Bob, telling him to buy me one. I expect an answer shortly. There are masterpieces at stake here and I’m sure he appreciates our sense of urgency.

By the way, and interestingly, I was surprised of your use of ‘flashed on’ in your Derrida post. I thought it was a South Africanism. In the context of the post, it was somewhat weird to learn otherwise.

I don’t know Krapp.