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Preface

(An illogical hope in the face of overwhelming adversity)

PART I

I took my power in my hand

The man I was not

Detached nouns and other early trials for the language-learner

Texaco

Corpus Christi

Human clothes

Questions

Coffee

Mad people

The cubic root of 912,673

Dead cows

The world as will and representation

Amnesia

4 Campion Row

The war and money show

A stranger

Starting the sequence

Primes

A moment of sheer terror

The distribution of prime numbers

Glory

Dark matter

Emily Dickinson

Dishwasher

A large house

Daniel Russell

The pain

Egypt

Where we are from

The dog and the music

Grigori Perelman

Crunchy wholenut peanut butter

Isobel’s dance

The mother

PART II

I held a jewel in my fingers

Sleepwalking

I was a wasn’t

Wider than the sky

A few seconds of silence over breakfast

Life/death/football

Light-bulb

Shopping

The Zeta Function

The problem with equations

The violet

The possibility of pain

Sloping roofs (and other ways to deal with the rain)

The thing with feathers

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens

In-between

Two weeks in the Dordogne and a box of dominoes

Social networking

Forever is composed of nows

Violence

The taste of her skin

The rhythm of life

Teenagers

Australian wine

The watcher

How to see for ever

The intruder

Perfect time

A king of infinite space

The art of letting go

Neuroadaptive activity

Platykurtic distribution

The Hat and Feathers

The ideal castle

Somewhere else

Places beyond logic

PART III

The wounded deer leaps the highest

An encounter with Winston Churchill

The replacement

A game

90.2 MHz

The ultimate crime

The nature of reality

A face as shocked as the moon

The second type of gravity

Advice for a human

A very brief hug

The melancholy beauty of the setting sun

When galaxies collide

Home

A note, and some acknowledgements