'I packed swiftly.... Everything on my list: passport black jacket dungarees underwear 4 tee shirts 6 pairs of bee socks Polaroid film packs Land 250 Camera black watch cap tin of arnica graph paper Moleskine Ethiopian cross. I took my tarot deck out of its worn chamois pouch and drew a card, a little habit before traveling. It was the card of destiny. I sat and sleepily stared at the great revolving wheel. Okay, I thought, that will do."
More lists in Joan Didion and - a thousand years earlier - The Pillow Book.
And on the top of her suitcase she throws The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Mirokami which I've never heard of before (but just bought on Kindle).
One very striking thing about Patti Smith - she NEVER mentions her phone. Real liberation.
