This frontier posting to Sigurt's World, home of the bloodsuckers, turns deadly while, back in the world left behind, a record of betrayals and denunciations is growing.
If a song isn't finished until the words and music are put together, then the 2,400 lyrics Mr. Guthrie left behind without any recorded or written music are half-songs waiting to be completed.
Unsurprisingly, the written records left behind by literate Bostonians downplayed the ultimate significance of draft resistance in the city.
A cultural "release mechanism" of some sort was necessarily involved in this discovery, and the favoured candidate for this role is language, the existence of which cannot be inferred with any degree of confidence from the records left behind by any other species but our own.
If the electronic records of the Bush White House total 100 terabytes of information, as archives officials estimate, that would be about 50 times the volume of electronic records left behind by the Clinton White House in 2001 and some five times the contents of all 20 million catalogued books in the Library of Congress.
But in a white collar investigation, the clues left behind often are computer records and private emails -- not blood splatter and DNA traces.
Some presidents leave behind records so contradictory as to cloud generalization.
And the oil barons about whom he writes, ostentatious as they were, had little interest in leaving behind records of their financial dealings or domestic extravagances.
Biographers want psychological access, but Hoover, though the records he left behind are vast, has the quality of not being personally present in a life that, for a long while, produced one triumph after another.
