Listing to Port

1123 Memories
 -1123.1 Those that induce an odd sense of wistfulness
    –1123.11 Those that are knotted together with other, almost unrelated memories
       —1123.111 Memories of remembering things in a different place
       —1123.112 Memories of listening to music
       —1123.113 Memories that have developed interrupting cats, unicorns or dairy products
    –1123.12 Memories of quotidian things
       —1123.121 Those that remain because in hindsight they were the last time for something
       —1123.122 Those that remain because in hindsight they were the start of something
       —1123.123 Those that have no particular reason for hanging around, which somehow only makes them pop up more often
    –1123.13 Those that you can take out and happily mull over during idle moments
       —1123.131 Those of small, gentle, happy things
       —1123.132 Those of places, realisations or the turn of seasons
 -1123.2 Those that grow over time into stories
    –1123.21 In which the stories no longer quite match with other people’s stories of the same event
    –1123.22 In which the narrative urge to tie everything up neatly has not yet quite overridden reality
 -1123.3 Those arising out of smells, sounds or turns of the light
    –1123.31 Memories of places far, far away
    –1123.32 Those of places or things that no longer exist
 -1123.4 Those that are needed to pass examinations
    –1123.41 Those that would be more useful in passing examinations if they were complete, but which unfortunately appear to have developed a hole somewhere
    –1123.42 Those that were very useful in passing examinations a few years ago but have now become a kind of patchwork quilt of vague equation-shapes and partial theories
    –1123.43 Memory buildings
       —1123.431 Palaces
       —1123.432 Houses
       —1123.433 Outbuildings or latrines
 -1123.5 Those that belonged to someone else first
    –1123.51 Memories of memories told to you by people now dead
       —1123.511 Those containing stories of memories further back
       —1123.512 Those that contain the last remaining trace of someone long gone
    –1123.52 Memories of things that you have forgotten actually happened to someone else
 -1123.6 Memories smaller than 30mm across
 -1123.7 Those that are kept in locked boxes
    –1123.71 Those that come out of their own accord, knotting themselves through other memories and generally being a nuisance
 -1123.8 Those that are accidentally from the future

0800 Lost things
 -0800.1 Recently lost
    –0800.23 Mittens
       —0800.231 Mittens placed on walls, railings and gates by helpful passers-by
    –0800.24 Stuffed bears, dogs and bunnies
       —0800.241 Those that are found again, to great joy
       —0800.242 Those that are not
          —-0800.2422 Those that are lost in airports at the start of a long journey
       —0800.243 Those that might have been found again, or might have been replaced by a duplicate, you are never quite sure
    –0800.25 Things that you know you put down just a moment ago
       —0800.251 Items that are in fact still on your person somewhere and obvious to a hypothetical bystander
       —0800.252 Items which you need to find to be able to find them
          —-0800.2521 Glasses
          —-0800.2522 Cups of coffee
 -0800.2 Long lost
    –0800.21 The subject of intense nostalgia
       —0800.211 Things for which the nostalgia does not align with the original reality
       —0800.212 The subject of sepia-tinted documentaries
    –0800.27 Things after the death of the last person who remembers them directly
    –0800.28 Things after the death of the last person who has heard the truth of them
    –0800.29 Things that have passed even out of story and rumour
 -0800.3 Things that are not lost, but know perfectly well where they are
    –0800.31 Things that are hiding
    –0800.32 Things that are mistaken about their location
       —0800.323 Confident walkers in mazes
 -0800.4 Things under sofa cushions
    –0800.41 Remote controls, keys and pens
    –0800.42 Food, dust and buttons
    –0800.43 Other sundry items
    –0800.44 Things that have passed into the main body of the sofa
       —0800.444 Things that are so valuable they require the dismantling of the sofa to retrieve
 -0800.5 That are the subject of humorous asides
    –0800.51 Marbles
       —0800.511 Literal marbles
    –0800.52 Virginity
       —0800.523 May or may not be lost, depending on whether a specific act counts or not
 -0800.6 Appetites, desires and dreams
 -0800.7 Cities, civilisations, treasure, ships, aeroplanes, etc.
    –0800.72 That in fact never existed in the first place
    –0800.73 Rumoured location is covered in dense jungle
    –0800.74 Rumoured location is under the sea
 -0800.8 Memories
    –0800.81 Of which only a ghost remains
       —0800.811 Memories that itch maddeningly at your thoughts when you smell a particular smell
       —0800.812 Things that you know you once knew
       —0800.813 Things that other people know you once knew