CONTENTS

1. TITLE PAGE
2. EPIGRAPH
3. PART ONE
4. THE HOW DO WE BEGIN?
5. NOW WE’VE REALLY STARTED SOMETHING
6. SIDESWIPE
7. YOU WOULDN’T SEE IT IN THE PAPER
8. TWO DARK PAILS
9. A MARKED BOY?
10. THE QUALITY OF THEIR SILENCES
11. EASY-WAY-OUT
12. A TO-DO IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO
13. TIME MUDDLES AND SLIDES
14. WORLDWIDE UNIVERSAL BLAHNESS ON A STICK
15. WHAT EATS AT DAYLIGHT’S EDGE, WITH ITS SHARP, RESTLESS MOUTH?
16. A SHORT SPELL
17. UNREELING
18. SO WHERE HAD THEY GONE WRONG?
19. TWO SMALL ALICES ON THE EDGE OF THE RABBIT HOLE
20. THE FULL, STAGGERING ONSLAUGHT OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE
21. THE DRAMA QUEEN GENE
22. OH, POINTED
23. A KWONK FEELING
24. KEY COMPETENCIES — MANAGING SELF, RELATING TO OTHERS, PARTICIPATING AND CONTRIBUTING: NOT ACHIEVED
25. I’M SORT OF THISTLEDOWNY
26. THE NOT-THERENESS OF HIM
27. HALLELUJAH HUNGER PANGS
28. HOP, HOP, WHAT, WHAT, PECK SHINY HARD THING
29. STRANGE HUMAN WORDS
30. GIVE TIME SOME TIME
31. LIKE PROTECTING A MATCH FROM THE WIND
32. PART TWO
33. ROUND-WAY-WRONG
34. A KINDA TROPICAL, JEWELLED HEAVEN-BIRD
35. TRANSLATION I
36. SWITCH-FLIP
37. INTO THE RAPIDS
38. TWO THIN, RAINY PEOPLE
39. ONE ROBIN
40. THIS MARRIAGE IS BIGGER THAN BOTH OF US
41. SO STUNG
42. THE MOST URGENT THING
43. DELICIOUS SIZZLE
44. HIS OWN SWEET TIME
45. A SHIFTING TESSELLATION
46.  
47. EPILOGUE
48. NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
49. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
50. FOLLOW PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
51. COPYRIGHT