Reading life /
Arthur, C. J.(Christopher John),1955-author.
Includes bibliographical references.
Footnotes (reading my daughter's feet) -- Breath (reading an entry from the Goncourt brothers' journal) -- Fuchsia (reading a patch of fallen blossom) -- When a dog barks late at night and then retires again to bed (reading Flann O'Brien's at swim-two-birds) -- Priests (reading fishing and desecration) -- When the time comes to lose them (reading Montaigne) -- Tracks (reading footprints in the snow) -- Sonatina for oboe and bayonet (reading all quiet on the western front) -- Describing a thought-path (reading a path along which I cycle nearly every day) -- Containing agostino (reading a copy of Alberto Moravia's novella) -- Scrimshaw (reading a whale's tooth) -- Coincidences, graces, gifts (reading Seamus Heaney) -- Memory sticks (reading three old walking sticks) -- Reading life (reading J. A. Baker's the peregrine) -- Afterword (reading essays).