NOTE 1 The Lord Chandos Letter — Hugo von Hofmannsthal The Pebble — Francis Ponge The Orange — Francis Ponge The Island — Rainer Maria Rilke The Short Fable of the Ash Tree in Munich — Peter Handke The Marionette Theatre — Heinrich von Kleist Kleist in Thun — Robert Walser Zidane’s Melancholy — Jean-Philippe Toussaint The Eighth Elegy — Rainer Maria Rilke The Ninth Elegy — Rainer Maria Rilke Absence — Peter Král Seeing — Peter Král 1071 — Emily Dickinson Addie Bundren — William Faulkner The Plain Sense of Things — Wallace Stevens Progress — Rainer Maria Rilke…