Spoerri writes in his introduction that "the procedure of Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and the associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a stroll taken in every direction at once...One might compare the Topography to other collective works in this century, from the experiments of the Surrealists to those described in William Burrough's The Third Mind...In the context of writing, rather than art, there is the process of annotation itself, which has given rise to a genre of literature all its own, a literature of digression and the forking narrative."Topography analyzes 80 different found objects in Spoerri's room. A map of these objects and a cubist photographic view of the room can be found on the first pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.