Status Updates From Things: A Story of the Sixt...

Finished Things: A Story of the Sixties. Now for A Man Asleep.

Then they dreamed of exquisite porcelain decorated with tropical birds, of leather-bound books printed in elzevier on hand-made Japanese vellum, with wide white margins and rough edges on which the eye could rest, of mahogany tables, of supple, comfortable, colourful silk or linen clothing, of bright. and spacious rooms, of armfuls of flowers, of Bokhara rugs, of bouncing Dobermanns.

"They would cross all of Paris to see an armchair they'd been told was just perfect."

I'm reading this because Vincenzo Latronico in his novel, Perfection, says quite bluntly that he's using the same structure as Perec did in his novel, Things, to write an updated version of the same story.

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