Citizen Kubrick is a fascinating article in The Guardian that details Stanley Kubrick’s extreme obsession with possessing and organizing the entire informational space about every subject he was interested in.
“Somewhere else in this house,” Tony says, “is a cabinet full of 25,000 library cards, three inches by five inches. If you want to know what Napoleon, or Josephine, or anyone within Napoleon’s inner circle was doing on the afternoon of July 23 17-whatever, you go to that card and it’ll tell you.” “Who made up the cards?” I ask. “Stanley,” says Tony. “With some assistants.” “How long did it take?” I ask. “Years,” says Tony. “The late 1960s.”
Definitely worth the read.