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Anything can happen: notes on my inadequate life and yours
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Publisher
Harcourt
Publication Date
c2003
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
Take two
My bear
No one is forcing you to like Mahler's music
From the Tao-Te Ching
Lecture to one suffering yet another identity crisis
On aristocracy
What bothers me
Advice to those about to acquire a Rembrandt
Tyranny for beginners
Don't take your soul to New England
Stopping by words on a snowy evening
On your conduct at the dinner party
My stump speech
On class distinctions
Shorter than Bacon's
New Year's at Luchow's
Yo, weather man
The men's room wall: a fantasy
Beautiful houses
Lines written nowhere near Tintern Abbey
Things one would like to see in movies
Odes for a rainy afternoon
The albatross that brought everyone good luck
Bring a wildebeest home to mother
The sheep academy of prizes
Dogstoevsky
On reputation
Love song
Hail the latest conqueror
Go where you are loved
Madness: a primer
Essays, I too dislike them
A prayer for the privileged
If in my sleep
Canticle for scumbags
Instructions to the housekeeper
"Neglect"
With narcissus in the aquarium
Kilroy was here
The puppet theatre of your irrational fears
Teach the free man how to praise
The day I turned into the Westin
Cliff's other notes
About god
Environmentalists
Hearing test
Everywhere a hit person
A great big laugh ends in a sigh
Lessons for grades 1 to 6
If you had given it a moment's thought
How to remove the horse from the vase
The bathroom for you
A question for Hannibal Lecter
The zealot who stood on his head
Ways of looking at a blackboard
Something's wrong
(More) shorter than Bacon's
The giant rat of Sumatra
In the madhouse in Beirut
Should your name appear
Things I can take, things I can't
Relax
Why you took it out on her
(more) Cliff's other notes
The inventor of time
Explanation to an unprincipled employer
To comfort a foe who lies in wait
Signs of accomplishment as depicted in the rear window of a Volvo
Gods should be careful
A valediction for all occasions
When you have trouble sleeping
Everyman's grocery shopping list
A brief history of idiocy
Should a vampire require a transfusion
How you talk
The intervention of facts
You think I'm kidding
Ashley Montana goes ashore in the Caicos
Aubade
Instructions to the pallbearers
My last case
On the other hand
The grateful living.
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