"Why should the calculus of the destinies not have its thorny parts?"



Imaginary Danish Books
  • How To Be Sure As To What Is And What Isn’t
  • The Doll’s Guide to Existentialism
  • If This, Then What?
  • You Are More Miserable Than You Think You Are

[This is a list of the books that Belinda the doll sees in the window of a Copenhagen bookshop, in Guy Davenport’s story “Belinda’s World Tour.”  Belinda notes “the Danes are melancholy and drink lots of coffee and read only serious books.”  You can page through a lovely illustrated version of this story in Duke’s Rubenstein Library.]

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