we have enumerated less than a paragraph’s worth of the countless and-able things of the universe. Like finding something or losing something, this quality of endless conjunction has the effect of making the world seem extraordinarily large and our own place in it vanishingly small. It also mimics a kind of imaginary primeval state of knowledge, as if everything in existence has been tossed down haphazardly in front us, leaving us to determine what relationships, if any, govern it all.
