(idea) by Ouroboros Thu Jul 19 2001 at 22:08:20

Counting makes even hideous events bearable as simply more of the same -- the counting of wedding rings, spectacles, teeth, and bodies disassociates them from their context -- to make the ultimate obscene blasphemy of bureaucratic insensitivity. Engage the mind with numbing recitation to make it empty of reaction.
--Peter Greenaway, Fear of Drowning By Numbers
I like it!