How to justify the state of my shed January 7, 2012
Posted by themoralhighground in Commentary, Self-indulgence.Tags: illuminations, walter benjamin
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“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories. More than that: the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books. For what else is this collection but a disorder to which habit has accommodated itself to such an extent that it can appear as order?”
– Walter Benjamin, from “Unpacking My Library” in Illuminations
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