Depictions of Blaff

In the tradition of Henri Michaux's Plume and Julio Cortazar's Lucas, British author Christopher Middleton presents hilarious anecdotes of the great economist Blaff-a bold, bluffing, blunderbuss character.

Christopher Middleton's previous short prose writings are Pataxanadu (1977), Serpentine (1985), In the Mirror of the Eighth King (Green Integer, 1999), and Crypto-Topographia (2002). His acclaimed Collected Poems was a literary event of 2008 (from Carcanet Press, 2008).

A Bad Egg	p. 9
The Encirclement	p. 11
Needing to Speak	p. 14
An Old Prospector	p. 16
An Imagining Praxis	p. 17
Homunculus, or The Skies above the Roots	p. 19
A Lost Encryption	p. 21
Alice Mennemen's Depiction	p. 25
Blaff's Evil	p. 32
Blaff's Past Conditional	p. 35
Circa 1937	p. 37
A Cheap Trick	p. 38
A Fatal Flaw	p. 39
Blaff Attacks Banality	p. 41
The Enchantment of Islanders	p. 45
Gilberto's Depiction	p. 49
A Guide for the Perplexed	p. 54
Jazz with Alfred Russel Wallace	p. 57
Lauretta's Depiction	p. 60
The Figure of Overlay	p. 63
The Midas Fragment	p. 65
Three Dreams	p. 70
Music Most Vulnerable	p. 73
One Hundred Words of Plentitude	p. 75
Party Lines	p. 76
On the Boulevard	p. 77
The Pines of Rome	p. 81
The Ripples	p. 84
Rude to Flowers	p. 86
On the Seraphic Tone	p. 87
Roman's Depiction	p. 89
Skuggwa	p. 92
The Sunday Boys	p. 97
The Swallows of Thera	p. 100
The Sycorax Syndrome	p. 103
A Train of Thought	p. 110
Uncertain Wavering	p. 111
Vertigo	p. 114
The Weathervane Oiler	p. 118
You Are Welcome	p. 123
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