Browser's Ecstasy

This is a prose poem about reading--a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when lost in a book, and the uncanny, trancelike pleasure of making silent marks on paper utter sounds inside one's head. A meditation on reading, the book goes both far and deep, resisting easy summary and classification.

Geoffrey O'Brien is editor-in-chief of the Library of America and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His latest books are Early Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth. He is a widely published poet, critic, editor, and cultural historian and has been honored with a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Institute for the Humanities. He lives in New York City.

1 A Reunion of Old Acquaintances	1	(4)
2 The Demon	5	(3)
3 A Mysterious Disappearance	8	(4)
4 A Night Journey	12	(3)
5 The Warehouse	15	(4)
6 Land Without Seasons	19	(5)
7 Lumber Room	24	(3)
8 Legacy from Space	27	(5)
9 Prisoners	32	(2)
10 Key to All Keys	34	(3)
11 The Book of Knowledge	37	(3)
12 Family Romance	40	(2)
13 Miniatures	42	(3)
14 The Book That Read Itself	45	(8)
15 The Browser's Ecstasy	53	(10)
16 By Stealth	63	(4)
17 Virgil's Lot	67	(4)
18 A Little Treatise on Ways of Reading	71	(3)
19 The Age of Memory	74	(5)
20 The Coming of the Book	79	(7)
21 The Middle of the Thing	86	(3)
22 A Genealogy	89	(3)
23 Archives	92	(3)
24 The Magical Custodian	95	(4)
25 Remnants	99	(3)
26 The Lost World	102	(6)
27 Doctor Tobacco	108	(7)
28 The Cemetery of the Ancestors	115	(7)
29 Close Readers	122	(4)
30 The Blasphemers	126	(18)
31 The Voice in the Well	144	(6)
32 The Other Side of the Garden	150

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