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Foreword Gregory Zilboorg v
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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
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