Hypochondria, insomnia, restlessness, and yearning are the lame muses of these brief pages. I would have liked to call them Extravaganzas … because many of them wander about in a strange outside that has no inside, like drifting splinters… . Alien to any orbit, I have the impression they navigate in familiar spaces whose geometry nevertheless remains a mystery; let’s say domestic thickets- the interstitial zones of our daily having to be, or bumps on the surface of existence … In them, in the form of quasi-stories, are the murmurings and mutterings that have accompanied and still accompany me- outbursts, moods, little ecstasies, real or presumed emotions, grudges, and regrets. -Antonio Tabucchi on The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico