«…I started collecting them three years ago, quite by chance: I looked through a heap of old “Stuttgerter Zeitung” issues.
Since then my collection (tentatively called “Charts”) grew as I also added to it clips from Russian newspapers and magazines.
Currently among them are: a fetation chart, a heart work chart, a Tour de France bicycle race route chart (for two years),
my personal emotional chart (from July 2000 up to now), and many other silly things. There are of no use for the customer;
generally speaking, any modern handicraft is of no use for the customer — you buy it, put it on a shelf, and feel joy.
But for myself, they are like rosaries that can be taken, matched, rearranged, put back into boxes, taken out again…
It’s like psychologists’ advice to mothers to give toys to their babies in order to develop babies’ fingers, minds and all that.
Besides, comparing the uncomparable (for example, medical studies and stock exchange dynamics) might be another time when we are reminded
that everything in our unstable world has its own ups and downs, and all this is like the breath of the ocean and the space.»
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