Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Prologue

  1 The Lesson of the Hand

  2 The Lime-Tree Bower and the Virgin of Amiens

  3 Boundaries

  4 Holding and Grasping

  5 The Room

  6 Addiction

  7 Transgression

  8 The Lesson of the Hand (2)

  9 Praesentia

  10 The King's Touch

  11 The Therapy of Distance

  12 The Therapy of Distance (2)

  13 Relics

  14 The Girdle and the River

  15 ‘A Goose which Has Grown in Scotland on a Tree’

  16 Possessing Power

  17 The Jewish Bride

  18 First Steps

  19 Kinetic Melodies

  20 Kinetic Melodies (2)

  21 Walker and World

  22 Boundaries (2)

  23 The Room (2)

  Appendix

Notes

Index