This book contains quotations, some of them slightly adapted, from works by: René Belletto, Hans Bellmer, Jorge Luis Borgès, Michel Butor, Italo Calvino, Agatha Christie, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Jarry, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Michel Leiris, Malcolm Lowry, Thomas Mann, Gabriel García Márquez, Harry Mathews, Herman Melville, Vladimir Nabokov, Georges Perec, Roger Price, Marcel Proust, Raymond Queneau, François Rabelais, Jacques Roubaud, Raymond Roussel, Stendhal, Laurence Sterne, Theodore Sturgeon, Jules Verne, Unica Zürn.