Curiosities

* Our inner lives (dreams, memories, thoughts and the symbols they use to express themselves)

* Time of day (stories that could only take place at night)

* The chance encounter of a sewing-machine and an umbrella

* Grand Central

* Constellations

* Snow

* Toys

* Taxi drivers

* Folksongs

* Country doctors

* Europe's grand hotels 

* Henri Bergson's conceptions of time

* The leper colony established on the island of Molokai

* The migration of salmon

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Some of these subjects and narrative forms show up in my fiction or give shape to it. Others are, as these things go, much newer to me and may or may not find their way in.

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