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The Written Record.
I stumbled on this:

Upon the return of a ship, city leaders would be invited to celebrate aboard, with plentiful food and imported drinks available to everyone including the ordinary sailors. When the barque Jeny, which had departed Oulu in the July of 1869, returned there in September 1871, a feast of pea soup and French wine was served; on this occasion one Nikke Ringvall is known to have consumed twelve whole bowls of pea soup, which at the time was considered an achievement.

Uhh. Okay. That was important? Peasoup Guy was important enough someone wrote it all down and preserved him for the ages?

It's charming, really. Now, you can go out on a Friday night, get ripped, and the next morning you can wake up naked and battered on the floor, with a little marching band of blue goblins emigrating out of your mouth. But then you forget, they'll forget, even the people you called at four a.m. will forget. But if you create a record of what's happened, you have something to fall back on. It may not be particularly reliable, of course, but you'll have a point of reference. And hundreds of years from now, it'll still be known the town exported a single barrel of lingonberries to Stockholm in 1755, that guy will still be Peasoup Guy, and you'll still be the person who danced Macarena on top of the car wearing a bra on your head.

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