{"id":509,"date":"2009-11-21T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2009-11-29T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T10:01:09","slug":"the-consolation-of-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"The Consolation of Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,659577,00.html\">Der Spiegel<\/a>, <em>The Name of the Rose<\/em> novelist Umberto Eco talks about the show at the Louvre he&#8217;s been curating. The theme of the exhibition is lists (Eco has a new book out from Rizzoli called <em>The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay<\/em>.) When asked, Why lists, Eco first proves evasive, offering,<\/p>\n<p><strong>I can&#8217;t really say. I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia. People have their preferences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But pressed further, Eco opines,<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That&#8217;s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It&#8217;s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don&#8217;t want to die.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview in Der Spiegel, The Name of the Rose novelist Umberto Eco talks about the show at the Louvre he&#8217;s been curating. The theme of the exhibition is lists (Eco has a new book out from Rizzoli called The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay.) When asked, Why lists, Eco first proves evasive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}