pack rat

I admit this is my first letter about homosexual, incestuous twins, but I’m going to take you at your word that you two are happy and that I should suppress the images that came to mind of two sets of brothers who lived together and came to unseemly ends: the pack-rat Collyer brothers and the twin gynecologist Marcus brothers.

Never mind, because this spring my pack-rat nature is rewarded.

Instead, most of it is a mélange of the pack-rat artist’s correspondence, clippings, snapshots, short reminiscences from friends and former teachers, gallery announcements, brief essays, exhibition photographs and more.

Their companies have created devices and code that enable omnipresent surveillance; their pack-rat servers hoard personal data.

Emily said that the staff didn’t know if Gorey had amassed goods for intellectual reasons or because of pack-rat urges.