On Collecting

On collectingWhat possesses a person to gather a collection of beer bottles or typewriters?WHAT POSSESSES A PERSON TO FATHER A COLLECTION OF 8EER BOTTLES ORTYPEWRITERS?n August 2000, sitting on the restaurant ter­race of an op­ulent Palladian villa hotel outside Pisa, I committed one of the great faux pas of my life (and be­lieve me, there have been plenty). I was dining with the great film director Bernardo Bertolucci and liis wife, the equally brilliant cineast. Clare Pepl(x\ I had just come f...