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I've heard it in relation to HMS Victory.
I felt similar when I received back my dad's dad's straight razor, beautifully restored by Neil Miller. An object that's skipped a generation (my father never shaved with it), given that new lease of life. I never knew my grandfather, yet his blood runs in my veins... and down my chin, when I don't treat his razor with the respect it deserves. It's a good thing.Rev-O said:An object both beautiful and useful that has been given a new lease of life by a skilled craftsman's to recall a dear departed dad; renewal ≠replacing (and, for me, the hope implicit in that); questions of persistence of identity in relation to continuity and change.
What a great thread.
Thanks everyone.