Exhausted by record keeping as I happen to be this evening, I am still enthralled by the results of the exercise that has taken me several days rather than years, as I foolishly feared at the outset (“Addenda, citata,” July 15, 2014). To begin with, citata evolved. Unlike addenda, which were deliberately introduced early on, citata appeared out of nowhere, as it were. In fact, it has taken me quite a while to recognize them as such. Next, citata started appearing in my writings only relatively recently. Although they now stretch across the years, many of them appear only in recent addenda. Most important, there are a bit less than four-hundred citata as compared to more than two-thousand and five-hundred addenda. For all the symmetry between the two ways of interlacing my writings through time, there are important differences between them, as well (“Interlacing,” July 16, 2014).

Amazingly, the first citatum appears as early as 1977, but it can actually be found in an addendum from 2013. The same holds for the single citatum in 1992. It, too, can be found in an addendum from 2013. The first citatum proper appears in 1994, when I parenthetically cited a piece of writing from 1992. The following years are chequered at best. There is a single citatum in both 2000 and 2001, four citata in 2002, three and two citata in 2005 and 2006, and one citatum in 2007. Ever since 2008, though, there are many citata every single year. So, 2008 is the magical year. So far, 2013 is the winner in terms of the number of citata, as there are a bit more than one-hundred parenthetical citations of my earlier writings that year.

As I already reported earlier today, many of the citata concern my struggle with the former mayor of Motovun and the Croatian judiciary system (“Six Years and Counting,” July 19, 2014). However, the bulk of them have to do with my spiritual development, which centers on Buddhism and yoga. Not surprisingly, the winning citatum is “The Ten Principles of Bon Buddhism” (April 10, 1992), which is followed by “The Ten Principles of Bon Yoga” (November 13, 2012). The former appears no less than nine times, the first of which is in 1977, while the latter appears as many as eight times. Written twenty years apart, these two pieces of writing appear to be the key to my Residua as a whole. And this is the discovery that crowns my effort the last several days. For better or worse, I had no idea what I would find out when I embarked upon my record-keeping exercise. It was well worth the effort, to be sure.