CONTENTS

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[Foreword]Gregory Zilboorgv
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1.[An Announcement—The Wisest of Lines—A Poem]1
2.[Ballet—Square Harmony—X]4
3.[A Coat—A Wall—The Tables]12
4.[The Wild Man with the Barometer—Epilepsy—If]18
5.[The Square—The Rulers of the World—An Agreeable and Useful Function]24
6.[An Accident—The Cursed “It’s Clear”—Twenty-four Hours]28
7.[An Eyelash—Taylor—Henbane and Lily of the Valley]38
8.[An Irrational Root—R-13—The Triangle]46
9.[Liturgy—Iambus—The Cast-Iron Hand]53
10.[A Letter—A Membrane—Hairy I]59
11.[No, I Can’t; Let It Be without Headings!]70
12.[The Delimitation of the Infinite—Angel—Meditations on Poetry]77
13.[Fog—Thou—A Decidedly Absurd Adventure]83
14.[“Mine”—Impossible—A Cold Floor]91
15.[The Bell—The Mirror-Like Sea—I am to Burn Eternally]95
16.[Yellow—A Two-dimensional Shadow—An Incurable Soul]102
17.[Through Glass—I Died—The Corridor]111
18.[Logical Debris—Wounds and Plaster—Never Again]121
19.[The Infinitesimal of the Third Order—From Under the Forehead—Over the Railing]130
20.[Discharge—The Material of an Idea—The Zero Rock]139
21.[The Duty of an Author—The Ice-swells—The Most Difficult Love]144
22.[The Benumbed Waves—Everything is Improving—I Am a Microbe]152
23.[Flowers—The Dissolution of a Crystal—If Only (?)]158
24.[The Limit of the Function—Easter—To Cross Out Everything]165
25.[The Descent from Heaven—The Greatest Catastrophe in History—The Known—Is Ended]171
26.[The World Does Exist—Rash—Forty-one Degrees Centigrade]181
27.[No Headings. It Is Impossible]187
28.[Both of Them—Entropy and Energy—The Opaque Part of the Body]196
29.[Threads of the Face—Sprouts—An Unnatural Compression]207
30.[The Last Number—Galileo’s Mistake—Would It Not Be Better]211
31.[The Great Operation—I Forgave Everything—The Collision of Trains]217
32.[I Do Not Believe—Tractors—A Little Human Splinter]228
33.[This without a Synopsis, Hastily, the Last]237
34.[The Forgiven Ones—A Sunny Night—A Radio-Walkryie]239
35.[In a Ring—A Carrot—A Murder]251
36.[Empty Pages—The Christian God—About My Mother]260
37.[Infusorian—Doomsday—Her Room]266
38.[I Don’t Know What Title—Perhaps the Whole Synopsis May Be Called a Cast-off Cigarette-Butt]272
39.[The End]276
40.[Facts—The Bell—I Am Certain]284

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