On Beauty Stories

Front cover
Title page
Copyright page
Epigraph
Contents
On beauty
Fourteen things you don’t know about Arturus Booth
Interruptions
Bicycle
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The Matrix Resolutions
The Garden
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Swimming lessons
Character sketch
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Things to do in airports
Baby names
The Last Man on Earth
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Art I have not made
A short film about my father
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Christmas music
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Less than zero: five imaginary stories
Translator’s note
Opening
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The Gospel According to Portia,
Fearless
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Silence
This is how it happens,
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The New House
A dream about vegetable soup
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The names of things,
Interference
Seven impossible things
The city is uneven
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The telltale heart,
Green, with a pleasant breeze
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The last words spoken on the surface of the moon
The Man from Glengarry
The secret origins of the everyday
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Acknowledgements
About the author