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tqft writes "JOCK Murphy was delighted. "You wouldn't do this job if you weren't excited by this sort of thing," the State Library manuscripts librarian said after viewing a 13-metre-long document discovered on a rubbish tip."Read the rest of the story here.Sad to think of what else was lost let alone how much will never be preserved.Without a time machine how do you decide what future archeologists, historians and socioligsts will want to know.Once upon a time it was the lives of rulers that consumed academia, now a great focus is on daily life."