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   What no responcents??? 

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> From: Tim Heitz 
> To: Meteorite List 
> Subject: A collectors journey to collecting
> Date: Thursday, June 05, 1997 4:38 PM
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>      I believe that all collectors ,whatever they collect,share a
> broad psychological profile they bring a wide an absolutely
> indistinguishable passion to the collecting of a wide variety
> of objects.It starts as a romance,with all of romance's sense
> of evanescence.
>      Collectors have an overdeveloped sense of finding something
> that is on the verge of being lost,something that is deserving of 
> their careful custodianship.
>      For every collector who shares his excitement and pride in his
> or her collection,there are ten or twenty people who can't help
> themselves.
>      They inevitably go about forming societies and issuing newsletters.
> In fact ,I'd submit that a collector hasn't moved beyond the stage
> of being a mere hoarder,until he or she seeks out others with the
> same interest.The truest collectors also collects fellow travellers.
>     At about the same stage in a collector's evolution,he starts 
> trying to go beyond the object itself,to try to understand the time
> and circumstances that produced it. I firmly believe that the seed
> has to be on fertile soil and believe collecting can be nutured.
>     In a sense its the object that collects us,and not the other way
> around.
>     The same meteorites that we collect today,in the future, they will
> be rediscovered with the same enthusiam.We are just short term
> keepers,its the meteorites that will pass through time, as they 
> already have for millions, even billions of years.Why are people
> drawn into collecting meteorites? I'm sure everyone has a story to
> tell.I sure would like to hear someones story,perhaps someone 
> would like to share one with all of us. 
> 
> A collector at heart,
> Tim Heitz
> http://home.stlnet.com/~easytim
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