(Trinidad Express) The laptop stolen from the Cascade home of local novelist Earl Lovelace is of more value in his hands than in the hands of the person who took it, the author said on Friday.
Lovelace, who has scores of literary works—both completed and unfinished on the computer—is therefore appealing to the person who has his laptop to return it.
In an interview on Friday, Lovelace said the laptop is an old model and is of no real value to anyone but himself.
“I think that I would hope that the person who has it will recognise the value of the material on it, to us all, is of far, far greater value than the few dollars they will get for it and return it.”
He said the computer is an old model Mac and so it is of very little financial value. Material saved on the computer includes an autobiography that he is working on, the outline of a novel, as well as a lot of archival material and all of the work he has done over the years—scripts and screenplays included.
Lovelace said the theft took place some time during the day when his family was not at home.
They found the house broken into on their arrival home.
