"I decided I knew nothing. Friends put me in touch with a Miss R., a teacher, unorthodox they said, excellent they sai…"

"“... Some people,” Miss R. said, “run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might poin…"

"The balloon, beginning at a point on Fourteenth Street, the exact location of which I cannot reveal, expanded northwa…"

"I met you under the balloon, on the occasion of your return from Norway; you asked if it was mine; I said it was. The…"

"I went to the plain girl fair out Route 22 figuring I could get one if I just put on a kind face. This newspaper here…"

"K. at His Desk He is neither abrupt with nor excessively kind to associates. Or he is both abrupt and kind. The telep…"

"Gallery-going K. enters a large gallery on Fifty-seventh Street, in the Fuller Building. His entourage includes sever…"

"K. Puzzled by His Children The children are crying. There are several children, one about four, a boy, then another b…"

"I spoke to him then about the war. I said the same things people always say when they speak against the war. I said t…"

"At that moment the son manqué entered the room. The son manqué was eight feet tall and wore a serape woven out of two…"