Olives -- Jigsaw puzzle -- Recitative -- Sublunary -- Fibs -- The compost heap -- The dress of one occasion -- Deus ex machina -- Telephonophobia -- Fear of happiness -- The argument -- Burned -- On visiting a borrowed country house in Arcadia -- Triolet on a line apocryphally ascribed to Martin Luther -- Violins -- Country song -- Sabbatical -- The ghost ship -- Handbook of the Foley artist -- Extinction of silence -- Blackbird etude -- Lines for Turner Cassity -- Funereal stelae: Kerameikos, Athens -- The cenotaph -- Pop music -- The eldest sister to psyche -- The boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx -- Persephone to Psyche -- Fairy-tale logic -- The catch -- Nursery rhymes: lullaby and rebuttal -- Containment -- Accident waiting to happen -- Dinosaur fever -- Tulips -- Alice in the looking glass -- Umbrage -- Hide and seek -- Sea girls -- Listening to Peter and the wolf with Jason, aged three -- The mother's loathing of balloons -- Another bedtime story.