MOD B

• 'There are 264 netsuke. Its a very big collection of very small object'
• ' i really don't want to get into the sepia saga business'
• “It's in the salons that Charles first comes into view… the salons had become 'infested with Jews and Jewesses
• thread motif
• I keep hoping that the netsuke will be a key that unlocks the whole of Viennese intellectual life
• Everything in this place, I realise is very shiny. There is nothing to grip onto with these marbled surfaces. It's lack of tactility makes me panic
• I'm rather in love with my 'Vienna as crucible of the twentieth century' motif, as are many curators and academics
• some traces are fugitive
• some traces are more concrete
• no longer know if this is a book about family, memory or myself, or is still about small Japanese things
• the netsuke begin again