Microcosms that Outlive Monuments , as Jackson puts it. Too much is not enough, as Jackson's inquiry into the artificial rarefaction of some books shows. The story of William Beckford who printed a total of twenty-five large paper copies in addition to the ordinary edition of his book Vathek is quite educational and may be used by future generations as a prime example for how to deal with the misfortunes of distribution of exquisite data. Brew me a brew that drinks itself before my own eyes. As we all know, a space is constituted in the praxis of living of the observer whenever he or she performs a distinction.
Mania produces consequences , while words never listen and teachers never learn.
No, this is not a book. It only looks like a book from the inside, but if you manage to get out of it before it eats you, you realise it is everything else but a book. Your mind becomes the moss which grows upon its trunk and the insects which feed upon it , as Jackson politely warns us. He rages and roams, he gets to our theme, and we lose it. He gives advice on reading many books at once , allowing no digression from digression.