Too much remembering embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited. - Susan Sontag

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names.

Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.