-- the contemporary equivalent to Walter Benjamin's “Unpacking My Library.” But I don't have time to do it, much less to talk about it, and how could I hope to rival Walt's eloquence:
Among children, collecting is only one process of renewal; other processes are the painting of objects, the cutting out of figures, the application of decals—the whole range of childlike modes of acquisition, from touching things to giving them names.
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