[His amusement increases as he watches her.] I could tell you quite a lot about it, but I'll do my best not to bore you. The Collection - the Braxiatel Collection, if you can forgive the vanity - is a sort of museum, gallery, and archive put all into one. It's where I keep everything I've gathered for myself over the years. We've art, artefacts, records, specimens, manuscripts... Everything I could get my hands on, really. I discriminate in quality more than in kind. Academics use the resources in their research, and as they do, their work adds more to the Collection. For myself, it's something of a delight to live on a planetoid developed particularly to suit my aesthetic sensibilities.