Paper: An Elegy

CONTENTS

RESPECTING PAPER: An Introduction

1 A Miracle of Inscrutable Intricacy

3 Walking Papers

4 Victims to the BIBLIOMANIA!

5 Ornamenting the Façade of Hell

6 The Soul of Advertisement

7 Constructive Thinking

8 The Secret Is the Paper

9 The Squiggle Game

10 A Wonderful Mental and Physical Therapy

11 Legitimationspapiere

12 Five Leaves Left

THE HOLLOW IN THE PAPER: Acknowledgments

TEARING THE BOOK INTO PIECES: A Bibliography

A NOTE ON THE TYPEFACES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY IAN SANSOM

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER