Medlemgeorge.s.v.

"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, "Unpacking My Library" (Illuminations, London: Pimlico, 1999, p. 60).