This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place. - Peter Greenaway

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

[T]here are tens of thousands of photographs taken here, all taken very patiently, because decay can be very slow.. Ten months for a human body... they say...

Where is a book before it is born? Does a book grow like a tree? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents -- a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? And where is the parent book of books?