Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index
Prelude : distant voices -- Aerial. Drowned by voices ; Each echoing opening ; Each muffled closure ; Dark senses ; Writhing sigla ; The jagged dog -- Vessels and volumes. Act of silence ; Art of silence ; A conversation piece -- Spectral. Chair creaks, but no one sits there -- Interior resonance. Snow falling on snow -- Coda : distant voices.