The corpus

Encounters

Lives, cases, plates. Stories are how a looking becomes memorable.

• The pipe on the clothAn object, then a word · A table
• The beetle at the windowZürich, told in 1952 · A consulting room
• The letters on the desk1932–1958 · Zürich, Princeton, letters
• A word at the borderA theoretical term · A problem, not a field
• Which lion?A gallery, a glass · Natural history
• The acorn on the ground1996 · A book, a myth, a seed
• The tree is a treeAn ordinary afternoon · A backyard
• Not all signs are the sameA trichotomy, 1867– · Wherever something stands for something to someone
• A footprintWhenever a body has left · Wet ground
• A folded flagA people, a schoolroom · A table
• What you declined to count1999 · A laboratory, then a famous video
• What memory added1932 · Cambridge, then every remembering
• This snakeA dream, or a kitchen · Tiled floor
• A raven on a fenceWet weather · A fence
• The space between chairsThe between · A room with two seats
• The aperture does not create the starThe Book of 42 · A looking
• The number that follows youAny city · Traffic
• Look closely. Hold gently.The Inner House · Attention, turned inward
• The day the fish would not stop1–2 April 1949 · Küsnacht
• The man who kept a ledger of coincidence1919 · Vienna
• He said he would go out with the comet1835–1910 · Florida, Missouri; Redding, Connecticut
• The annotated copy on the bench1973, as later told · London, a station bench
• The laboratory superstitionNamed in Pauli’s lifetime · Laboratories that told the story
• The foot on the step1881, told 1908 · Coutances, an omnibus
• The signal she stayed with1967–1968 · Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
• The waking dream at DiodatiJune 1816, told 1831 · Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva
• The three princes28 January 1754 · A letter, Strawberry Hill to Florence
• The dull number in the taxiTold by Hardy, 1919 or after · A taxi, then a nursing home in Putney
• Honolua, the first morning1 May 1976 · Honolua Bay, Maui
• A letter to a darkened room13 April 1942 · A letter toward Carcassonne
• Photograph 511952 · King’s College London
• The plates she remained with1912 · Harvard College Observatory