phantasmagorical

“What do we do with our money? Even if we prudently tuck away a good deal of it, we spend most of it, and what we spend it on shows the nature of our souls. It shows what we are doing with an external, exchangeable symbol of the soul. All those [art] collectors we were talking about earlier, the serious ones and the merely solemn ones, are projecting their souls into their collections.” Robertson Davies, “Painting, Fiction, and Faking”