Anthu apambuyo pano ndi bukhu

“Nkhalango ku Norway ikukula. M'zaka 100 lidzakhala buku la anthology. Chaka chilichonse, wolemba akupereka lemba limene lidzakhala lodalirika, losasindikizidwa, mpaka 2114.”

Ngati panakhalapo nthawi yoti muchotse zolembedwa pamanja zosasangalatsa izi, wojambula waku Scottish Katie Paterson wakupatsani mphatso. Paterson pa Future Library Project, yomwe idzakhala mu New Public Deichmanske Library, Oslo, yomwe inakhazikitsidwa August watha. Ndi mtundu wa ufulu umene ukhoza kupangitsa munthu womasulira mawu kukhala wamisala. Zolemba pamanja zamtundu uliwonse kapena utali, woti usindikizidwe zaka zana kenako. A svelte 75, Margaret Atwood mwina sangakhale ndi moyo kuti awerenge ndemanga ya ntchitoyi. Wothandizira mu 2014 wasankha, mosasamala, kuti atulutse nkhani yachidule ya polojekiti yotsegulira.

Ngakhale omvera ndi nyumba yeniyeni (zosungira zakale za Oslo sizimalizidwa mpaka chaka cha 2018) za ntchitoyi palibe, polojekitiyi idakhazikitsidwa pano ndi pano, m'mitengo ya 1000 Paterson ndi Future Library Trust adabzala kuti apeze pepala ntchito zidzasindikizidwa. “Chilengedwe, chilengedwe [chili] pachimake chake - ndipo chimakhudza chilengedwe, kugwirizana kwa zinthu, zomwe zikukhalapo ndi zomwe zikubwera. Zimakayikira chizolowezi chamakono choganiza m’kupita kwa nthaŵi, kupanga zosankha za ife amoyo tsopano.” Paterson akuyerekeza kuti izi ndi zokwanira pafupifupi 3000 anthologies.

Chimodzi mwa zinthu zosangalatsa kwambiri za kukula kwa polojekitiyi ndi kuchuluka kwa zochitika zomwe zingatheke komanso kutanthauzira kotheka. Kodi tidzakhala ndi nkhalango yokwanira yotsala zaka 100 kuchokera pano kuti tilungamitse kupha 1000 chifukwa chomwe chingakhale chinthu chachilendo? Kodi anthology idzawoneka bwanji m'zaka 50? Kodi kusintha kwanthawi zonse kudzakhudza bwanji ntchito yosankha? Monga William Gibson (wa Neuromancer ndi "kugawidwa mosagwirizana" zam'tsogolo fame) imatikumbutsa, "zomwe timaganiza za Victorian sizili ngati zomwe a Victorian ankadziganizira okha. Zingakhale zowawa kwambiri.