***** 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_, trans. Harry Zohn, NY: Schocken Books, 1968, p. 60) *****
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