List of Figures 10 Acknowledgments 12 Preamble 15 Part One The Mirror of Time 35 Parrots and monkeys 37 The first palm 44 Where grenades fall, there green palms grow 55 First Excursion Parrots on motorcycles: exoticisms of the Czech avant-garde in the 1920s 68 Metaphors, dreams, travel 95 Workers . Indians! 102 Through the train window--Don't worry, I am not going to Paris 109 Second Excursion His head that watches us over the century's edge: poetic travels in the nineteenth century 117 The notebook that he lost somewhere on the ship 135 With the ship that carries tea and coffee 142 Half-black, you understand? Here you have to be careful! 166 New Icarus and the mestiza My Beautiful Arsiti 183 Again some Malay landscape 195 The jungle around us 202 Sailors of all seas unite! 207 Your longest and most adventurous journey 213 Again and again man is proving that he has no wings 217 Part Two A hundred rose petals, on them no words 225 Silences 227 Sounds, smells, tastes 235 Typography--optic configurations 244 Photographs, cinema, and the magazine Home and the World 259 Picture postcards 290 Snapshots and reflections: poetry travel photography death 297 Author's note on translations and sources 310 Bibliography 311 Index 317 List of Figures 10 Acknowledgments 12 Preamble 15 Part One The Mirror of Time 35 Parrots and monkeys 37 The first palm 44 Where grenades fall, there green palms grow 55 First Excursion Parrots on motorcycles: exoticisms of the Czech avant-garde in the 1920s 68 Metaphors, dreams, travel 95 Workers . Indians! 102 Through the train window--Don't worry, I am not going to Paris 109 Second Excursion His head that watches us over the century's edge: poetic travels in the nineteenth century 117 The notebook that he lost somewhere on the ship 135 With the ship that carries tea and coffee 142 Half-black, you understand? Here you have to be careful! 166 New Icarus and the mestiza My Beautiful Arsiti 183 Again some Malay landscape 195 The jungle around us 202 Sailors of all seas unite! 207 Your longest and most adventurous journey 213 Again and again man is proving that he has no wings 217 Part Two A hundred rose petals, on them no words 225 Silences 227 Sounds, smells, tastes 235 Typography--optic configurations 244 Photographs, cinema, and the magazine Home and the World 259 Picture postcards 290 Snapshots and reflections: poetry travel photography death 297 Author's note on translations and sources 310 Bibliography 311 Index 317.