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CONTENTS

Observing the Progress of Time

A Short Essay Written by the Protagonist

I Promise to Pay the Bearer

Details of Some Principal Coordinates

Growth Towards the Ceiling

Aspirations to a Complete Inventory

Writings in the Mode of Realism

General Advertisement to the Locality

Possible Uses for Pockets

Occurrences of an Afternoon of Leisure

Beyond the Turquoise Door

Concerning the Utmost Privacy

The Faded Glamour of Certain Stairwells

Views of a Forgotten Building

On What Has Been Discarded

Time Signatures Affect Desires

An Unexpected Encounter with Trevor

To Be Accepted As Truths

Mobilizing the Labour Force

Abandoned Projects of Minor Significance

Brief Communications with the Populace

Things He Made no Record of

The Repository of Words

On the Planet Everybody Calls Home

Acts of Industrial Sabotage

Window, Bicycle, Lamp Post

Habitual Practices that Cannot be Ignored

Notes on Inconsequential Occasions

Broadcasts Received in the Outer Regions

A Speech Delivered to a Small Audience Gathered Inside an Abandoned Ballroom

The Rebuilding of Ickenham

Rumours of the Neighbourhood

Enactment of an Unknown Epic

What Will Happen at this Juncture?

It’s Never Impossible to do Something for the First Time (If You Haven’t Done It Before)

Transcription of an Afternoon Walkie-Talkie Conversation

Relations with the Absolute

Instruction Booklet Discovered Inside a Large Box

The Pleasures of Examining Ice

Occasional Wardrobe Combinations Discovered

The Invisible Expanding Galaxy Band

Visual Responses to the Period in Question

The Museum of Contemporary Life

Thoughts Emerging from the Contemplation of Clouds

The Ignoble Procession Backwards

Interview Performed by a Computer

How to Celebrate with Equanimity

Reflection in a Darkened Window

The Distribution of Resources

Millions and Millions and Millions