Tonight I chucked out my notes from my Ph.D. dissertation. This should have been easy. I was awarded the degree in 1974, I haven’t even looked at the notes in over 20 years, and I never published an article based on the research.
All that material on obscure colonial possessions, on U.N. Decolonization Committee votes, on places you’d have a hard time finding on a map, like Cabinda--all dumped into the recycling bin.
I don’t know why, but it makes me a little sad.
(Cabinda, by the way, is located just north of Angola, and is considered part of Angola, although there are a number of people in Cabinda who would give you an argument about that.)
It is stuff when one has to decide to throw things.
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