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Document Outline
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Cat’s Dream
Fatigue
The Refusal
Untitled
The Freezing Piano
He Who Died in His Sleep
The Hatter
Driving Eastward
Our Pet Dog
The Wild Boar
The Programmer
The Neighbors in My Building
The Doorbell Salesman
The Soothsayer
The Raven from the Traffic Island
The Stone Shelter
The Shepherd
The Gray Balloon
The Red Dog
The Bank Robber
The CEO of the Conglomerate
A Tale That Might Have Been Told by Rumi
Tower or Gate
The Watchmaker
Planning Ahead
Everything Is Relative
The Bureau of Housing
The Bureau of Cartography
The Bureau of Espionage
The Bureau of Quiet
The Shouts
Allapua
The Projectionist
The Most Original Artist in the World
The Reader
The Pilgrims
Five Minutes
The Reined Horse
The Burnt Village
Dating
The Minister’s Driver
Bright Morning
The Interviewer
The Twins
Travel Diary
Entrepreneurship
Silence Is Golden
The Stranger
The New Mother
The Hunter
The Patient
The Countess’s Table
The Ultimate Horror of Being
The Mayor’s Dream
Notoriety
The Bridge Builder
The Wheelbarrow Driver
The Drunkard Father
The Fawns
Sand Burial
Beauty Sleep
The Prophet
The Second Book
The Soldiers and the Dogs
The Empty Aircraft Carrier
The Feral Girl
Ignition
Cloudburst
The Poet
The Sculptress
The Screech of the Crane
The Tour Guide
Further Up the Path
Why You Shall Not See Me on the Road
The Bureau of Animal Protection
The Bureau of Transportation
The Hermit
The Priestess and the Witch
The Exiled Empress
The Tale of an Author
The End of the Song
The Blue Pear
Hendibeh
Acknowledgments
About the Author / About the Translator
Colophon