Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).
Contents:
Two Stones. IV. If I Told You -- My Life in a Coffee Cup -- If I Told You -- Kafka's Hands -- How Many Secrets? -- Ammonite -- The Pangolin -- 8.3 Billion Metric Tons -- Ode to Chufa -- Passepartout -- Ode to Pubic Hair -- Black Leather Backpack -- The Loneliness of His Death, the Death of His Loneliness -- To Wait and to Hope -- How Do I Fix the World -- Courage! -- II. Appearances -- Self-Portrait as Corncrake -- Midnight in Paris -- Cinquains to Pablo -- At the Fountain of the Fallen Angel in Retiro Park -- Cancelled Letter to Antoni Gaudí -- It Takes So Little -- Evening Storms -- Trilogy of Doubt. Cinquains of Doubt -- Innocence -- Trilogy of Hands -- Trilogy of Doubt -- Doubtful -- Doubtful Profile -- Three-Quarter View -- Trilogy of Death -- Trilogy of Tears and Smiles -- III. Oblique Strategies -- Trust in the You of Now -- Turn It Upside Down -- Emphasize the Flaws -- Only a Part, Not the Whole -- The Most Important Is Most Easily Forgotten -- Give Way to Your Worst Impulse -- Accretion -- Not Building a Wall but Making a Brick -- Do We Need Holes? -- Repetition Is a Form of Change -- Do Nothing for as Long as Possible -- Where's the Edge? -- Honor Thy Error as a Hidden Intention -- Overtly Resist Change -- Be Extravagant -- Use Filters -- Reverse -- Don't Break the Silence -- IV. From the Dream Notebooks -- My Life as an Open Air Temple -- A Dream Is One-Sixtieth Part of Prophecy -- I Have Dreamt a Dream and I Do Not Know What It Is -- A Good Dream Should Be Kept in Mind so It Will Be Fulfilled -- There Is No Dream Without Frivolity -- All Dreams Follow the Mouth -- A Dream That Has Not Been Interpreted Is Like a Letter That Has Not Been Read -- It May Be Spring -- The Water Where I Have Not Swum -- Mitzvah at Gordon Beach -- To the One Who Tames -- To the Ram's Horn I Cannot Sound -- Two Stones.
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