TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. On Eros and mirrors
2. The passage
3. Tastes of Now
4. The addict’s monologue, or, on desire and shadow (a)
5. If
6. Two transparencies
7. The cheat’s monologue
8. On desire and mirrors
9. A piano, sex and love
10. The addict’s monologue, or, on desire and shadow (b)
11. An elegy on love
12. The old man’s monologue
13. The silent scream
14. The violence in denying the fact of loneliness
15. The kiss and the Now
16. The friend’s monologue
17. An elegy on time
18. The book of the relationship
19. On losing a loved one
20. Stability
21. Revelations
22. Misunderstanding
23. An elegy on loneliness
24. The dreamer’s monologue
25. Postscript: Encounter with Beatrice
*Further notes in the first person
*The raw material for the Notes’ images
contributors
cover and the 25 images
visual compositions based on the visual part of the author’s musical work “Ars Moriendi”
graphic design
Eleni Nasta
final, edited translation:
Andy Wilcox
(initial translation: Joanna Mariam Hailem)
pre-publication readers:
Anna Kostina, Julianne Apel-Oper, Mariane de Wulf,
Sergey Kondurof, Fausto Radaelli, Roberta Bottari
Video in the first person about the coral idea
and the features of this book
A NON-VERBAL video with images from the
book and music from my compositions
“BEATRICE” & “ONAR”
