ephemera: memoir... family history... part forensics, part confessional... the categories intersect, a conventional menu seems inappropriate — ‘history’ assumes continuities impossible to attest.
In her introduction to “The Five ‘Confucian’ Classics”, Michael Nylan notes:
If "warp" is the original etymology of the Chinese word for
"classic," early Chinese usage parallels the evolution of the
word "sutra" in Indian tradition, from "connecting thread."
The English word "text," of course, derives from the Latin
textus, meaning "woven".
A cloth, then, one with an open weave : space for inference, surmise, doubt 
And here is the late Italo Calvino, from the lectures he was scheduled to deliver at Harvard: I would say that the moment an object appears in a narrative, it is charged with a special force and becomes like the pole of a magnetic field, a knot in the network of invisible relationships. The symbolism of an object may be more or less explicit, but it is always there. We might even say that in a narrative, any object is always magic. from 'Quickness' ~ "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" 1985
objects the warp, then, text the weft
ephemera ephemera Dark