A Constellation of Amazements: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Joy of Collecting Things

The Marginalian ·
Culture & Lifestyle

We are hunter-gatherers with a capacity for amazement, wired to search for an organizing principle by which to contain the chaos of reality. We organize what we find into categories and hierarchies, hovering over which is one of the strangest things about being human: preference. How odd to have a strong feeling about a color or an object or a sequence of chords. And yet our preferences are how…

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