Benjamin rectifies this by cross-referencing with small squares, 👉.
While Konvoluts K and L show an obvious overlap in “Dream House” as a key word, others, like “Idleness” and “The Flâneur” press up against the limitations of each definition, their overlaps, and the problems of classifying a quote whose contents span the arcades, advertising, and fashion into a single one of these categories.
Yet, closer examination reveals the idiosyncrasies beneath the system. This index and labeling system gives a vague impression of the contents of the Konvolut, and neatly separates them into seemingly autonomous categories. Within each Konvolut, as Buck-Morss notes, the entries are arranged roughly chronologically. An entry labeled is Konvolut A, folio 5, third page, entry #2. Benjamin would only write on the recto sides of the folio–pages 1 and 3–so writing on the first page would appear while a lowercase “a” in the entry indicated its placement on the third page. Within each Konvolut, the entries are labeled using the Konvolut letter, the folio number and position in the folio, and the entry number. Anthropological Materialism, History of Sects
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