I can never decide how to organize my bookshelf.
By theme, by author, by size?

Known forms of government

Anarchy
Aristocracy
Authoritarianism
Autocracy 
Communist state
Democracy
   Direct democracy
   Representative democracy
Despotism 
Dictatorship
Fascism 
Feudalism
Hierocracy
Kleptocracy
Krytocracy
Monarchy
   Absolute monarchy
   Constitutional monarchy
Ochlocracy 
Oligarchy
Plutocracy
Republic
   Mixed government
   Constitutional republic
   Parliamentary republic 
   Socialist republic
   Capitalist republic
Single-party state
Thalassocracy
Theocracy 
Timocracy
Totalitarianism
Tyranny

Thalassocracy - a government devoted to Roman baths; Timocracy, rule by the timid. 
What about rule by focus groups?

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." 

~Oscar Wilde

"Lump often finished his own meals by snacking off 

Jacqueline or Pablo's plate."

~Picasso and Jacqueline [Villa La Californie, 1957]

Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey

Let me become the shadow of your shadow, 

the shadow of your hand, 

the shadow of your dog.

~Jacques Brel: Ne Me Quitte Pas

I'd walk a mile for good bread

Someone once asked what my favorite food was and I said, "toast." 

It was a joke, but not really. Toast equals breakfast for me and breakfast leads the day. Toast! Toast! My kingdom for a piece of toast. Chewy toasted bagels — one of the things I missed most when I came to Japan.
    
Back then, a "morning set" at a kissaten consisted of acid-burn coffee that raped your mouth and a slice of spongy bread, thick as an airport novel and just as substantial. It was tanned rather than toasted and came with marge.

In the early 00s, when young Japanese who had gone off to Paris and Berlin to study breadmaking started returning to Tokyo and opening little bakeries, life here got immeasurably better. Then the professionals came: Joel Robuchon, Francis Holder, Eric Kayser.

Now there is better bread in Tokyo than almost anywhere. La Boutique Robuchon in Ebisu has sublime croissants, Paul in Yaesu offers chewy pain au levain, Kayser in Mita makes ciabatta and pain de yuzu, the best local twist yet. Heaven is toasted pain de yuzu.

John Updike once said his aim as a writer was 
to give the mundane its beautiful due, to be immersed in the ordinary, 
which careful explication would reveal to be extraordinary.

What would he have made of Tokyo.