The Somnambule's Crime

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS


 

 

I. LITTÉRATURE (STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

The Filthy Little Prologue

Littérature (Still Under Construction)

The Immortal Bard On Nature (1,2,3)

A Novel About Vermeer

The Barcelona Dictionary

Opinion

 

 

II. THE REVERSIBLE POTOMAC

Vermeer Highway

Reversible Potomac Demonstration

A Diffident Political Parable

Urban Bust Development

A Speech At The Ministry Of Brief Environments

 

 

III. THE PUPPET MINE

Coffee Before Touring The Pyramids (Part 1)

The Great White Detective (Part 2)

Hotel Detective Before Breakfast (Part 3)

Horrid Sandwiches (Part 4)

Torquemada As Played By Robert Mitchum (Part 5)

Christmas (Part 6)

 

 

IV. ANTI-NATURE

Anti-Nature

In The Afternoon Paper (“The Great Outdoors”)

Freudian Somerset

Waterfall

The Cut-Rate Cloud (Naturalism)

Honeymoon Kitchenette

Agriculture’s Daydream

Proto-Feminist Holiday

Young Adulthood

Treasure Hunt

 

 

V. LOVE’S EVOLUTIONS

Toward The End Of December

A Single Evanescence Badly Explained Due To Time Pressures

Domestica

Berenice’ Dossier Opened To The Public

Said Of That Boat Dreaming Your Body

One Over-Determined Boatman

Airline Strike

Gang Virtues

 

 

  VI. STATE RADIO AUDIOSTREAM

State Heaven

Consulate Ghosts

State Radio Audiostream

Insurgents Demanded Thursday

 

 

  VII. LOST OPPORTUNITIES 

Ballet Sylphide

The Great Age

Lost Opportunities

Berlin (A Ballet)

The Labyrinth Of Industry Touched By Small Feathered Gloves

That Small Town Feeling

Another Place But Still The Stones (An Afternoon In Ancient Greece)

The Penultimate Juncture

A Better World (for William Marsh)

 

 

  VIII. THE APHORISTIC COSMOS

Summer Subtractor

A Woman Buried In Her Nightgown (A Truism)

Abbess

Brancusi

 

 

  IX. THE LUMINOUS THEATRE

The Luminous Theatre (Take A Number)

Baudelaire In The Woods

Hera’s Profile

Traveling Stage Show

Roughly Modern

To Distill Cinnamon From A Curtain

 

 

  X. IF

If (Fuck Kipling)

Existentialism Man

German Folktale

 

 

  XI. SWIDDEN WEST 

Swidden West

Trees Blackening And Ringed With Red Girls

La La

Rent Control

We Adjoin Ourselves

Exhausted Feathers

 

 

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