"Things I dislike: sleeping in an apartment alone, cold
weather, couples, football games, swimming,
anchovies, moustaches, cats, umbrellas, being photographed, the taste
of licorice, washing my hair (or having it washed), wearing a wristwatch, giving
a lecture, cigars, writing letters, taking showers, Robert Frost, German food.
Things I like: ivory, sweaters, architectural drawings,
urinating, pizza (the Roman bread), staying in hotels, paper clips,
the colour blue, leather belts, making lists, Wagon-Lits, paying
bills, caves, watching ice-skating, asking questions, taking taxis, Benin art,
green apples, office furniture, Jews, eucalyptus trees, pen knives, aphorisms,
hands."
"The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history
of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human
being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the
incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums
and through encyclopedias and dictionaries...”
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