Interest in “Ian on Sunday” of April 12, (“Everything is interesting,”) attracted not only my attention but that of SN’s editorial writer last Friday, days after I had completed this effort. Ian McDonald related how he conducted a “great clearing operation” and lyrically described the relief: “Disposing of detritus is a little like returning life to greater simplicity and more focused meaning.” But then came the vandal’s remorse. What if, in destroying what would be considered rubbish, is an act of vandalism, because “everything is grist to the historian’s mill,” citing Joel Benjamin, Guyana’s late outstanding archivist and bibliophile.