Table of Contents
Introduction Alexis Grohmann ix
A Borrowed Dream
A Borrowed Dream 3
Air-Ships 7
The Lederhosen 15
An Unknowable Mystery 18
Ghosts and Antiquities 21
The Invading Library 24
Uncle jesús 28
Old Friends 34
I'm Going to Have Fun 37
The Most Conceited of Cities
Chamberí 43
The Most Conceited of Cities 47
The Keys of Wisdom 54
Venice, An Interior 59
All Too Few
Noises in the Night 91
The Modest Case of the Dead Stork 94
Lady with Bombs 97
A Horrific Nightmare 100
No Narrative Shame 103
All in Our Imagination 107
The Weekly Return to Childhood 111
Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted 114
In Praise of the Egotist 117
All Too Few 119
Dusty Spectacle
Damned Artists! 125
Dusty Spectacle 129
My Favourite Book 135
This Childish Task 139
For Me Alone to Read 142
Hating The Leopard 146
Writing a Little More 153
Roving with a Compass 156
Who Is Who? 159
Time Machines 167
The Isolated Writer 170
Too Much Snow 176
The Much-Persecuted Spirit of Joseph Conrad 179
The Improbable Ghost of Juan Benet 182
Those Who are Still Here
The Hero's Dreadful Fate 187
Riding Time 193
Travelling Between Eternities 198
A Hero from 1957 201
Those Who Are Still Here 205
Why Don't They Come Back? 209
Music for the Eyes 212
Earthly Sighs 215
The Man Who Appeared to Want Nothing 218
The Supernatural Master of the World 223
What If You Had Never Been Born? 227
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 230
Acknowledgements 243
