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-  2018 

BEATING THE TIME THROUGH LEAVING A TRACE IN TIME: DESKTOP WRITINGS

Keywords: Masaüstü yaz?lar?,Tarih? Kalkano?lu Pilavc?s?,Trabzon

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While human being’s life is forced to end and possibly they are in need of this, they need writing in order to express themselves. Writing provides human beings with an opportunity to exist beyond their own milieu or time and place. It is an instinctive behaviour to leave a lasting impression or to imprint it permanently. Even lines which overflow from the paper to the table and then to the walls from a child who is given a paper and a pencil for stalling can be explained by this human desire to be eternal. While wall opens the boundaries of a time-bounded space, wall writings are the grounds for crossing the enclosed borders. Despite the fact that wall writings are not widely approved, or it is in their nature not to want any approval, there are wall writings which are subject to permission and even encouragement. Such writings are called “desktop writings” which can also be described as well-written wall writings. Desktop writings are notes on small papers that are left on the customers’ tables, especially in businesses related with serving food. They are similar to memory books which are held for visitors to share their feelings and thoughts in some museums, institutions and individual businesses. “Scribbling” has changed into an ordinary activity on digital screen through passing various steps such as cave walls, rocks tops, clay tablets, scrolls from various animal leathers, and paper of papyrus. “Writing” notes on the desktops was a way of saying “I was here” in the past. This study examines the subject of desktop writings in the “Historical Kalkano?lu Pilavc?s?” in Trabzon. By the help of a tentative content classification, these writings show the visitors’ thoughts and feelings. Accordingly, through their examination, we can compare people's expressive means in terms of their social spaces and social habits

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