In Czechoslovakia -- In a cafe near Tuba City, Arizona, beating my head against a cigarette machine -- Language, nonsense, desire -- There is constant movement in my head -- Maize -- Child and dwarf -- In another life I encounter my father -- The woman at the laundromat crying "mercy" -- The machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano -- The march of the suicides -- The Doppler effect -- The Robinson Hotel -- Toban's precision machine shop -- Strength -- Speaking the names -- The last days -- Fire and water -- The messengers -- Local knowledge -- Kansas -- Saipan -- December, 1986 -- My mother's dreams -- Photograph of a college football team, 1927 -- The structures of everyday life.
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