The project retained its original treasure-hunting flavor with Overton at the helm: at times, the work seemed less like that of the stereotypically anchoritic librarian and more like the swashbuckling archaeological acquisitions carried out by Abigail Chase in the film National Treasure (2004). It reached beyond Berger’s home and brought Overton into forgotten nooks and crannies of the Old World, such as a Cold War fallout shelter in Geneva where he and Berger’s daughter Katya retrieved two massive suitcases of lost documents from the years 1960–72.
During an interview from around the time of his donation, Berger claimed the coexistence of the living and the dead is a fundamental part of what separates humans from other animals.
Like building and tearing down silo's on alternate weeks.