Sleek #27 Autumn 2010 minimum|maximum

Sleek #27 Autumn 2010 minimum|maximum

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On this page, there are 4346 characters, 2213 in German and 2133 in English, set in the LeMondeLivre Oldstyle Figure typeface (with an exception of 23 characters) all at 8.7 point, the leading measuring 11.3 mm and the spacing 7 mm, arranged in two columns, each 91.883 mm wide, with the type area width measuring 188.025 mm. On the upper left side of this page, the word “Editorial,” made up of 9 characters, is set in ITC LubalinGraph. The English text starts 4 mm below the word “English,” set in Helvetica New Extended at 5 point, with the words “On this page” …

This is how one can miss the greater picture – by getting lost in details. A brain that functions “normally” would merely perceive a text, which it would either consider a useful introduction to this issue’s theme (“Minimum/Maximum”) or dismiss as boring. A brain possessing an eidetic or photographic memory however, might perceive this page exactly as described above. An eidetic memory recalls the minutest details with utmost accuracy and perceives every detail as equally important, without the capacity to classify things within a range of importance or to comprehend correlations. In such a brain, things probably look like they do in the home of a person suffering from messy house syndrome, a psychological disorder which is considered the most extreme implementation of disorderliness. But while people diagnosed with this disorder might acknowledge the fact that they lead a lifestyle not in keeping with common social standards, they don’t consider themselves disorderly. On the contrary, they keep things in order to keep things in order, and when forced by others to throw something away, that sense of order is severely shaken. Incidentally, this disorder shows overlaps with the so-called Diogenes syndrome, which is marked by personal neglect and withdrawal from social interaction. Actually, persons suffering from this disorder, are said to be in no way unhappy with living in a state of frugality.

To dish a bit of dirt: each time we close an issue, the entire sleek editorial staff starts to collectively suffer from the messy-house syndrome. Long-dismissed content is suddenly brought up again, everybody fights for their favorite stories and people break out in tears at the slightest shortening of a caption. Why make such a fuss about nothing, you ask? Well, it’s all a matter of proportionality. But in the end, we are always consoled by the fact that there is so much to discover in each issue, with each page being a universe in itself, a gateway into new dimensions …