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naptha
Easy work, the sign says. No boiling. If bricks could hold the memories of the past lives of buildings, those would be good memories to have. What did you do in your previous incarnation? Easy work. No boiling.
These old signs, those old bricks, they remind us of our own impermanence. Hardly anybody uses naptha soap these days. Hardly anybody knows what naptha is. The cultural memory of naptha is almost as inaccessible as if it was bricked up behind that door. The sign will continue to fade, to become more and more faint, to recede further into the cultural memory. Eventually, the last traces of cocoa naptha soap will disappear.
But not entirely. The bricks might hold onto the memory. Easy work. No boiling.
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