CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. ONE Finding My Voice
6. TWO The Language Teacher
7. THREE You Are What You Say
8. FOUR A Poet Savant
9. FIVE Cuecueiuca
10. SIX A Clockwork Language
11. SEVEN The Man Who Was Friday
12. EIGHT Icelandic Names
13. NINE Dead Man Talking
14. TEN An Englishman at L’Académie Française
15. ELEVEN OuLiPo
16. TWELVE Talking Hands
17. THIRTEEN Translating Faithfully
18. FOURTEEN A Grammar of the Telephone
19. FIFTEEN Conversational Human
20. Acknowledgments
21. About the Author
22. Also by Daniel Tammet
23. Newsletters