Our gratitude to the following publications in which earlier versions have appeared:
Anti—: “House Inspection,” “Miniature,” “Measuring”;
Copper Nickel: “Reading,” “Night,” “Television,” “Hammershøi”;
The Paris Review: “Shirt,” “Movie Theater,” “Clouds,” “Sleepwalkers,” “Theater,” “Hats,” “Fitting Room,” “Waiting Time,” “Closing Time,” “Handkerchief,” “Steps,” “Shoelaces”.
Thanks to the Danish Arts Council for a travel fellowship. Thanks to Peter Rannes and Hald Hovedgaard for a two-week residency in Jutland, where the final drafts of this material were completed in July 2009. Also our gratitude to the Department of Literature and the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences at American University, which funded a portion of this project. The translator thanks Nicky Beer, Peter Conners, Melissa Hall, Laren McClung, Nathaniel Rich, Steve Schroeder, Benjamin Stansfield, and Jake Adam York for essential input which aided in the completion of this book.