Chablis -- On the deck -- The genius -- Opening -- Sindbad -- The explanation -- Concerning the bodyguard -- Rif -- The palace at four A.M. -- Jaws -- Conversations with Goethe -- Affection -- The new owner -- Paul Klee -- Terminus -- The educational experience -- Bluebeard -- Departures -- Visitors -- The wound -- At the Tolstoy Museum -- The flight of pigeons from the palace -- A few moments of sleeping and waking -- The temptation of St. Anthony -- Sentence -- Pepperoni -- Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby -- Lightning -- The catechist -- Porcupines at the university -- Sakrete -- Captain Blood -- 110 West Sixty-first Street -- The film -- Overnight to many distant cities -- Construction -- Letters to the editore -- Great days -- The baby -- January.