The appearance of Chatwin's letters, 22 years after his death at the age of 48, revives a curiosity never fully satisfied by biographies from Susannah Clapp in 1997 and Nicholas Shakespeare (now the letters' principal editor) in 1999.
That puts us on a kind of treadmill, he says – we keep on expecting quicker and easier ways to revive our curiosity.
For a moment, this biological curiosity revived hopes that an undiscovered animal loped through Tibetan snow.
Instead of simply brushing off a candidate or philosophy because a certain word (socialism) is fraught with "red" baggage, I hope more of us can revive a posture of curiosity and wonder: asking, "What could be possible?" instead of narrow-mindedly and ignorantly declaring what isn't.
The piece, created in 1985, is a curiosity for Bausch watchers: It was revived in 2011 in Wuppertal, Germany, but hasn't been seen abroad since it was last performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1994.
Only after the war did opera houses begin, here and there, to revive it as a curiosity.
For all Massine's claims to have captured the feverish spirit of the age, the ballet is barely worth reviving, even as a curiosity.
2. The Game (Liverpool Playhouse, 1914) This forgotten curiosity by Harold Brighouse, Lancastrian writer of Hobson's Choice, was rediscovered in a Canadian college library and excitingly revived by Barrie Rutter's Northern Broadsides company in 2012.
One of the curiosities of her troupe, the State Ballet of Georgia, is its dual existence as a plucky start-up operation and international attraction since Ms. Ananiashvili revived the floundering company in 2004.
The language revived remarkably.
Then it unexpectedly revived.
