Contents

• Chablis
• On the deck
• The genius
• Opening
• Sindbad
• The explanation
• Concerning the bodyguard
• Rif
• The palace at four A.M.
• Jaws
• Conversations with Goethe
• Affection
• The new owner
• Paul Klee
• Terminus
• The educational experience
• Bluebeard
• Departures
• Visitors
• The wounds
• At the Tolstoy Museum
• The flight of pigeons from the palace
• A few moments of sleeping and waking
• The temptation of St. Anthony
• Sentence
• Pepperoni
• Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby
• Lightning
• The catechist
• Porcupines at the university
• Sakrete
• Captain Blood
• 110 West Sixty-first Street
• The film
• Overnight to many distant cities
• Construction
• Letters to the editore
• Great days
• The baby
• January