The book I am reading The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin has more than a thousand pages, yet I have opened it randomly to the identical page that last 3 times and read the same section. The title of the section is The Collector, strangely it’s page 210 every time, then I reverse to the start of the section and read forward. Yet one entry that mentions dispersion I must have read more than 10 times.

It’s a book I’ll spend years with, I’m certain.