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Species of Space pp 1-45

1. Why does Georges Perec choose to go from The Page straight to the bed in his sequence of ever growing space?
2. Why does Perec feel the need to show so extensively that the inventory of the items in the apartment building and their uses, "could never be exhaustive" (41) (he goes on for over 2 pages)?
3. Why does Perec choose objects that are taken so much for granted, as his models for the uses of space, and explain so thoroughly his emotional as well as physical need of the objects?

Resonse to Question 1: I believe that Perec chooses to go from the page straight to the bed in his ever growing space because to him it logically flows. The need for a bed and a place of ones own to sleep in is a secondary need to the page. He needs a place to write, because on the page you can explore anything. He says, "At one time or another, almost everything passes through a sheet of paper" (12), meaning that to him the need for the page is far more prominent than the need for the bed, even though we cannot survive without sleep. He flows from highest need to lowest need (in my view), and from smallest space to largest space. He moves from the page, to the bed, to the bedroom, to the apartment, and to the apartment building. To describe the aforementioned places and to get down his thoughts on each he must first posses the page to record these thoughts. Everything in Perec's world comes back to the page, where his world begins.

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