Georges Perec


What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. Question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live; true, we breathe; true; we walk, we open doors, we walk down the stairs, we sit at the table to eat, go to bed to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? 

Describe your street. Describe another street. Compare them.
Make a list of what’s in your pockets, or your bag. Ask yourself where these things came from; what are they for and what will become of them?
Question your teaspoons.
What is under your wallpaper?

Perec, 1973 Cause Commune
        translation by Ian Butler?

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