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CONTENTS

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ForewordGregory Zilboorgv
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1.An Announcement—The Wisest of Lines—A Poem1
2.Ballet—Square Harmony—X4
3.A Coat—A Wall—The Tables12
4.The Wild Man with the Barometer—Epilepsy—If18
5.The Square—The Rulers of the World—An Agreeable and Useful Function24
6.An Accident—The Cursed “It’s Clear”—Twenty-four Hours28
7.An Eyelash—Taylor—Henbane and Lily of the Valley38
8.An Irrational Root—R-13—The Triangle46
9.Liturgy—Iambus—The Cast-Iron Hand53
10.A Letter—A Membrane—Hairy I59
11.No, I Can’t; Let It Be without Headings!70
12.The Delimitation of the Infinite—Angel—Meditations on Poetry77
13.Fog—Thou—A Decidedly Absurd Adventure83
14.“Mine”—Impossible—A Cold Floor91
15.The Bell—The Mirror-Like Sea—I am to Burn Eternally95
16.Yellow—A Two-dimensional Shadow—An Incurable Soul102
17.Through Glass—I Died—The Corridor111
18.Logical Debris—Wounds and Plaster—Never Again121
19.The Infinitesimal of the Third Order—From Under the Forehead—Over the Railing130
20.Discharge—The Material of an Idea—The Zero Rock139
21.The Duty of an Author—The Ice-swells—The Most Difficult Love144
22.The Benumbed Waves—Everything is Improving—I Am a Microbe152
23.Flowers—The Dissolution of a Crystal—If Only (?)158
24.The Limit of the Function—Easter—To Cross Out Everything165
25.The Descent from Heaven—The Greatest Catastrophe in History—The Known—Is Ended171
26.The World Does Exist—Rash—Forty-one Degrees Centigrade181
27.No Headings. It Is Impossible187
28.Both of Them—Entropy and Energy—The Opaque Part of the Body196
29.Threads of the Face—Sprouts—An Unnatural Compression207
30.The Last Number—Galileo’s Mistake—Would It Not Be Better211
31.The Great Operation—I Forgave Everything—The Collision of Trains217
32.I Do Not Believe—Tractors—A Little Human Splinter228
33.This without a Synopsis, Hastily, the Last237
34.The Forgiven Ones—A Sunny Night—A Radio-Walkryie239
35.In a Ring—A Carrot—A Murder251
36.Empty Pages—The Christian God—About My Mother260
37.Infusorian—Doomsday—Her Room266
38.I Don’t Know What Title—Perhaps the Whole Synopsis May Be Called a Cast-off Cigarette-Butt272
39.The End276
40.Facts—The Bell—I Am Certain284

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