Re: BOUNCE logh@soda.csua.berkeley.edu: Non-member submission
Bob (gr8scott@airmail.net)
Fri, 07 Apr 2000 12:15:20 -0500
> I beg to differ...I don't think he is obsessed with 'the' hair / is it in
> anyway fetish...but it's really act as a very strong reminder and comfort to
> have felt as if he (Kircheis) is there, I don't felt it to be weird.
> Actually wot confuses me is that keeping a lock of someone hair is more of
> an Asian tradition, whilst seeing Reinhard background is Western, I don't
> know do Western culture have such custom???
>
> :)p
> Rgds,
> Ryka
During the Victorian era in the US and UK it was considered perfectly
normal to keep hair from deceased relatives from remembrance' sake and
even make ornamental hair art. Not the custom now, of course.
