The Jingle Bell Principle

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ISBN: 9781852241230 | 1852241233
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Copyright: 9/1/1992

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"Better known as Czechoslovakia's finest poet, Miroslav Holub is also a superb prose stylist. The fifty-five 'essaylets'...each forty-three lines in length, first appeared in the magazine Vim. Adhering To The magazine's strictures on length, Holub in

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The Rules of Writing Short Columns	p. 7
The Function of the Motorcycle
In Defence of the Motor Car	p. 11
Pathways	p. 12
The Frail Regularity of the World	p. 14
Flies	p. 15
On Inseparable Baggage	p. 17
The Instructive Camera-Case	p. 18
On the Topology of Bits and Bobs	p. 19
The Holy Rite of Waiting	p. 21
A Land Pleasant in Clime to Inhabit	p. 24
Wrinkles
On Aggression	p. 28
On Natural Respect	p. 30
Logical Riddles	p. 32
Overweening Crassness	p. 33
Boundary Burning	p. 35
The Scent of Illusions
Already the Ancient Sumerians	p. 39
On Supernatural Forces	p. 40
The Magnetic Amulet	p. 41
The Head-Capping Principle	p. 43
For Beauty and Health	p. 44
The Laws of Being and Representing	p. 47
The Laws of Representing and Being	p. 49
How We Were Filmed	p. 50
The Metaphysics of Photography	p. 51
The Art of Conversation	p. 54
The Computer Serial	p. 56
Mickey Mouse from the Biological Point of View	p. 58
The Visitant	p. 59
The Factor of First Encounter	p. 61
How Comes It That Lao-Tze Wrote a Book
The Treacherous Plumage of Words	p. 65
On the Unnaturalness of Writing	p. 67
On the Naturalness of Speaking	p. 68
The Art of Non-Listening	p. 70
The Principle of Crossed Letters	p. 71
On Reading	p. 73
Sand-Glasses	p. 75
Books That Go to Oblivion	p. 76
The Mythology of Books	p. 78
Poetry in the Year 2000	p. 79
Choice of Limits
The Differentiating Instinct	p. 83
Garden Gnomes	p. 84
Kitsch	p. 86
On Reflex Haste	p. 88
The Intrusion of Pallas Athene	p. 89
On the Classification of Mystery	p. 91
The Greatest Power of Man
Towards the Physiology of Joy	p. 95
Dwelling in Thought	p. 97
A Professor on a Bike	p. 98
On Gazing	p. 100
Where You Do Absolutely Anything You Like	p. 102
Our Tiniest Nature Reserve, or: A Little Bit of Lyricism	p. 103
A Conversation in the Woods	p. 105
In Praise of Porters	p. 106
How I Imagine My Readers	p. 108
The Jingle Bell Principle	p. 109
On Inward Humming	p. 111
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