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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. xi*The First
Movement, pg. 3*The Armorer's Daughter, pg. 4*Fainted Desert, pg. 6*The
Coloring of Experience, pg. 7*Letter to My Sister, pg. 8*Depth of Field, pg.
9*Pentimento, pg. 10*The Light Passages, pg. 12*Physical Properties, pg.
13*Bad Debts, pg. 14*From This Angle, pg. 15*Body of Work, pg. 16*What
Dances, pg. 18*Going to Sleep, pg. 19*The Palace at 4 A.M., pg.
20*Long-Distance Swimming, pg. 21*Grisaille, pg. 25*Sleeping Beauty, pg.
26*Patches of Sky, pg. 27*Trappings, pg. 28*The Invention of Routine, pg.
29*White Fields, pg. 30*The Painter's Model, pg. 32*Fall, pg. 33*The Man on
the Bed, pg. 34*Not You, pg. 35*To Make You Well, pg. 36*Sea Change, pg.
37*Closing, pg. 39*Night Freight, pg. 43*Calibrations, pg. 44*Myopia, pg.
46*Fictions, pg. 47*Any Story, pg. 49*After Iceland, William Morris Dreams of
Panama, pg. 51*Business, pg. 52*Companion to Ships and the Sea, pg.
53*Natural Forces, pg. 54*The Life of the Remittance Man, pg. 55*Knowing, pg.
57*Crossing the Plains, pg. 58*A Second or Third Dimension, pg. 59*Bearings,
pg. 60*Field Glass, pg. 61*Hard Water, pg. 63
