Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible
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The list is the origin of culture. Itβs part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order β not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.