un: tigerpoet

[tigerpoet]

The opening of the museum here is enormously exciting, but it also has me thinking about museums at home.

I know there are exhibits about me in at least a few museums - I've never been to see one, because it feels vaguely egotistical to attend an exhibit about yourself? But I've always wondered what sort of things they have to say about me. What parts of my life are worth putting on display for the public.

If there were a museum dedicated to you, what do you suppose would be on exhibit?

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[tigerpoet]

You two must be very close.

sometimes you gotta build a museum to spite your dad. that's just how it is

[goingsoft]

Not really, to be honest.

You know how sometimes people's work changes everyone's lives, and yet nobody's ever heard of them because they don't take credit for it? It's a little like that. He deserves for everyone to know what he's done for them.

[tigerpoet]

In my experience, that sort of person tends to be uncomfortable with a lot of attention.

[He wouldn't presume to say that he's changed people's lives, but besides that, he's that kind of person.]

[goingsoft]

Oh, I'm sure he'd hate it. It's what he deserves, not what he'd want.

What's the point of a hypothetical museum if you can't use it to make someone miserable, right?

[tigerpoet]

I'm partial to making people theoretically happy, but to each their own.

[goingsoft]

Honestly, I'm not sure I'd like the kind of person who'd want a museum all about themselves enough to want to use it make them happy.

But maybe if it was just one little exhibit in a bigger museum, they could be next to something they'd like. That might be fine.

[tigerpoet]

Some of my friends have more than healthy levels of self-esteem. I probably shouldn't encourage that...

I think it might be nice to be a part of something larger.

[goingsoft]

What would those friends like in a museum about themselves, do you think? I really can't think of anything for anyone I like.

I keep thinking I'd want to put them in museums of things they like, but that's kind of just taking them to see a museum. The things they like and the things they do aren't really the same.

I know I'm butchering your original question all over the place here. I'd say sorry, but you don't seem to be taking offense.

[tigerpoet]

No need to apologize. You make some good points.

Let's see... If it was Ranpo, I think he'd like to be reminded of all the detective cases he solved and the people he helped. That's something to take pride in.