The hollow in the paper between the front and the back of a thin sheet of paper . . . To be studied! . . . it is a category which has occupied me a great deal over the last ten years. I believe that by means of the intra-slim one can pass from the second to the third dimension.
MARCEL DUCHAMP, quoted by Denis de Rougement,
“Marcel Duchamp, mine de rien” (1968),
repr. in Marcel Duchamp, Notes, ed. Paul Matisse (1980)
For previous acknowledgments see The Truth About Babies (Granta Books, 2002), Ring Road (4th Estate, 2004), The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books (Harper Perennial, 2006), The Mobile Library: Mr. Dixon Disappears (Harper Perennial, 2006), The Mobile Library: The Delegates’ Choice (Harper Perennial, 2008), and The Mobile Library: The Bad Book Affair (Harper Perennial, 2010). These stand, with exceptions. In addition I would like to thank the following. (The previous terms and conditions apply: some of them are dead; most of them are strangers; the famous are not friends; none of them bears any responsibility.)
Jonathan Agnew, Foz Allan, Eric Ambler, Kristin Andreassen, Ards Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, John Franklin Bardin, Catherine Bates, Maurice Blanchot, Peter Blegvad, Amy Blythe, Ian Bostridge, Alfred Brendel, Gerard Brennan, Vera Brice, Carla Bruni, David Burke, Victoria Button, Paul Caddell, Caine’s Arcade, Sophie Calle, Brian Caraher, Michel de Certeau, Kellie Chambers, Aislinn Clarke, Cheryl Cole, Ruby Colley, Seamus Collins, Stephanie Conn, Shimon Craimer, Martina Crawford, Martin Cromie, Laura Cunningham, Sean Curran, Guy Debord, Linda Drain, Joseph Duffin, David Dwan, Geoff Dyer, Will Eaves, Lisa Edelstein, Craig Edwards, Hiba El Mansouri, Omar Epps, Frantz Fanon, Patrick Fitzsymons, Maureen Freely, Brid Gallagher, General Fiasco, Craig Gibson, Chris Gingell, Gotye, Andrea Grossman, Moyra Haslett, Caroline Healy, Toni Hegarty, Ivan Herbison, Naftali Herstik, Ben Highmore, Peter Jacobson, Boyd Jamison, Stephen Kelly, Diarmuid Kennedy, Bernadette Kiernan, Nicola Killow, Kimbra, John Knowles, the staff of Krem, Gidon Kremer, Robert Lacey, Martin Lamb, Heather Larmour, Christopher Lasch, Hugh Laurie, Catherine Lavery, Gary Learmonth, Henri Lefebvre, Robert Sean Leonard, Sheila Llewellyn, Johanna Lyle, Shan McAnena, Michael McAteer, Nathaniel McAuley, Darran McCann, Denise McGeown, Michael McGlade, Philip McGowan, Niall McGuckian, Susannah McKenna, Ryan McNeilly, Patrick McOscar, Bernie McQuillan, Karen McQuinn, Sheila McWade, Fiona Mackie, Hugh Magennis, Ben Maier, Alison Marchant, Zeljka Marosevic, Marcel Mauss, Ruben Moi, Helen Molesworth, Martin Mooney, David Morley, Francis Morrison, Jennifer Morrison, Chris Moyles, Kevin Mulhern, Gerry Mulligan, Romano Mullin, Emma Must, Romily Must, Padraigin Ni Ullachain, Michael Nolan, Marcus Patton, Kal Penn, Tommy Potts, Janet Pywell, the staff of Queen’s University Library, Katy Radford, Joan Rahilly, Marcelo Rayel, Shaun Regan, Stefano Res, Daniel Roberts, John Roberts, Marco Rodrigues, Gil Scott-Heron, Stephen Sexton, Matthew Shelton, Chris Sherry, Shiftz, Jane Shilling, David Shore, Paul Simpson, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jesse Spencer, Roberta Stabilini, Jonathan Stead, Mark Stevenson, Erin Stewart, Martin Strel, Tahan, Orla Travers, Two Door Cinema Club, Malte Urban, Dianne Vinson, Walk off the Earth, David Walliams, Tara West.