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I am not a person that reads obituaries

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but sometimes I came out in the New York Times especially

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with some headlines that I found very funny like

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"Master of Light Bulbs" or

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you know, "Once Known as a Rival to Shirley Temple"

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or "The Pioneer in Frozen Juice."

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And I start to collect and get all the

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obituaries possible and then select from them the headlines that I found most

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provocative or intriguing or funny or banal.

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It's a little bit like a mausoleum.

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Normally when you...you see something commemorating the dead,

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it's a listing thing, you know?

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You have the list of the names.

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In this case you don't have the list of the names.

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You have these floating sentences of the memory of somebody.

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That it doesn't matter who was, but it matters what they did.

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I think it's a very existential piece in a way.

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It's like we are all language, in a way

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we are all not just like an organism

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that eats...from the very beginning

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we are communicating with people...we are

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the way we behave and how we interact, we are language.

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For me what is important is not

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so much what you see in the show

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but what you see after,

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how your perception of reality is changed.

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Then next time they open the newspaper

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they are going to look for the obituary

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to see if the sentence is funny or is intriguing or is original

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and then the people who is connected with this work

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they will be collecting these obituaries in their head

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you know, and maybe I'll do the same

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And then my obituary is going to be

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"The Most Important Collector of Obituaries in the World"

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