Rilke’s Notebooks: Two Incidents of Modernity and a Comical Interlude

  1. The Trolley (163)
    1. Mass Transportation
    2. Death in the Machine Age
  1. The Neighbor, Nikolai Kuzmitch (168)
    1. Condescension and Self-consciousness
    2. The Time Bank
    3. Petty Bureaucrats and Their Obsessions
  1. The Duke’s Body
    1. "Books are empty; it is blood that matters, it is blood that we must learn to read." (151)
    2. Locked Inside Your Blood
    3. Faceless Death
    4. Life Scars, Battle Scars
  1. Previews
    1. Hammett’s The Glass Key: Hard-boiled Film Noir
    2. Borges’ Stories: Narrative Possibility and Memory
    3. Read: Tlön, Uqbar" 17; "Pierre Menard" 45; "Library of Babel" 79 "Circular Ruins" 57; "Forking Paths" 89. "Funes, the Memorious" 107; "Death and the Compass" 129; "The Secret Miracle" 143; "The South" 167

    4. Bishop’s Poems: Studies in the Aesthetic