Applesauce
Resonator
Hard drive
sock
penguin
alfalfa
jelly roll
RolexTM
bookshelf
gangrene
canoe
wheelbarrow
barracuda
pedestal
tube
androgynous
So there’s the list. I find it every few months when I clean my room, and it’s so puzzling that I never throw it out. My guess is that it’s between 3 and 5 years old. I have no idea what this list was for! At first glance it looks like a shopping list, but since I’ve never in my life desired either a resonator or gangrene, and not to mention it’s hard to buy androgynous, I don’t think that was the point.
Perhaps when I’ve lost my marbles some decades hence, the point of this list will be a crystal memory, but until then we can speculate. So, what do you think it is a list of/for?
There are some homonymic connections–jelly roll:RolexTM, wheelbarrow:barracuda, i.e., the ending of one word sounds like the beginning of the next. Perhaps a weird word puzzle?
It sounds like something you would see posted on foundmagazine.com : “We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life. Anything goes…”