I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.
“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.”
“Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”