Honey in the mouth

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. At the temple 3
4. Young man and sailor 4
5. Near nothing 5
6. False etymology in a statue garden 6
7. Idol 7
8. Nay, He Hath Need of Naught! 8
9. Raised far from rivers 11
10. Under his window 12
11. Abandoned warehouse in the afternoon 13
12. Aqueduct 15
13. Reverse Translation 16
14. Clear cut 21
15. The Closed Eyes of the Ravished 22
16. That They May Uphold Him Horizontally 23
17. The Island of Misfit Toys 24
18. Trick 26
19. Ulcer 27
20. The evening 31
21. Enough Hast Thou Slept! 32
22. Saint Anthony 33
23. Bronze Age 34
24. Story 35
25. Weed 41
26. The Fierceness of Pleasure 43
27. Una Chupacabrita 44
28. The Whole Firmament That Turned Even as We Turned 47
29. In the art house 48
30. Job 52
31. Positive 55
32. In the shadow, in the house 56
33. Tent 58
34. Anger 60
35. Thought experiment 61
36. Gestures 64
37. First snow 67
38. Specialty Fish 68
39. Jonah, missionary in spite of himself 69
40. Jonah, displeased with God for sparing Nineveh 70
41. At your door 71
42. Your essay on black boxes 72
43. Singeth Lovewords 74
44. Fact 75
45. Thick pronoun 76
46. Kafkaesque 82
47. Honey in the mouth 83
48. Book of Jonah 85
49. Kafka on the beach 86
50. Yom Kippur 88
51. Acknowledgments 91