Originally published: Great Britain : Faber and Faber Ltd., 2000.
Poetry and psychoanalysis -- Bombs away -- Clutter: a case history -- Winnicott's Hamlet -- The sexual liberation of Fritz Wittels -- The manicuring of Jacques Lacan -- Pessoa's appearances -- On translating a person -- Appreciating Pater -- Minding out -- An answer to questions -- Smile -- Martin Amis and the female policeman -- Narcissism, for and against -- Roaring boy -- Frederick Seidel's new poetry -- Coming to grief -- Editing Hosman -- On eating, and preferring not to -- The pragmatics of passion -- Farber's quibble -- Prynne collected -- Christopher Hill's revolution and me -- Sameness is all -- Nijinsky's new diary -- Jokes apart -- Doing heads -- Promises, promises.