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Forum: Possessions and Collections

Historian and novelist Philipp Blom discusses the motives behind collecting and hoarding. Are collections magical, symbolic, attempts to cheat death or even 'keys to a different world'?

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Boxing Day 2014 16:20GMT
麻豆社 World Service Online

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    麻豆社 World Service Online