CITY GUIDE

with Diagrams to VISITING HOURS

A hundred and eighty diagrams to sixty stories · the maps, the persons, the places, and the city’s own rules and rates

THE COMPANION IS NOT THE BOOK.It measures the collection. It does not summarize it, and it does not resolve it.

Landscape edition, for screen and for the web. The diagrams are set upright and full width; a portrait edition, with the diagrams redrawn for that page, is issued alongside it.

A second edition of this guide exists; its figures were drawn separately, not rotated, and where the two differ the story is the authority.

Contents

• INTRODUCTIONwhat these diagrams are, and what the book is

PART ONE

stories one to ten · Many Happy Returns to Crowd, Moved

• Many Happy Returnsfigures 1–3
• Nearbyfigures 4–6
• The Grace Periodfigures 7–9
• Instructions for the First Hourfigures 10–12
• Cheap Wordsfigures 13–15
• Keptfigures 16–18
• The One Who Would Not Clearfigures 19–21
• Final Positionfigures 22–24
• Presentfigures 25–27
• Crowd, Movedfigures 28–30
• AFTER THE FIRST THIRTYcommentary

PART TWO

stories eleven to twenty · The Tank to Stimulus

• The Tankfigures 31–33
• Reconciliationfigures 34–36
• Sub la Kuranta Akvofigures 37–39
• Exportfigures 40–42
• The Ratefigures 43–45
• Thereforefigures 46–48
• The Worksfigures 49–51
• Effectsfigures 52–54
• Walking the Groundfigures 55–57
• Stimulusfigures 58–60
• AFTER THE SECOND THIRTYcommentary

PART THREE

stories twenty-one to thirty · Sale 41 to Retention

• Sale 41figures 61–63
• Kindly Confirmfigures 64–66
• Room Fourfigures 67–69
• Standing Orderfigures 70–72
• The Wingfigures 73–75
• Order Was Restoredfigures 76–78
• Local Modefigures 79–81
• What I Have Receipts Forfigures 82–84
• The First One Firstfigures 85–87
• Retentionfigures 88–90
• AFTER THE THIRD THIRTYcommentary

PART FOUR

stories thirty-one to forty · Next Year to For Corrections Only

• Next Yearfigures 91–93
• A Place Is Heldfigures 94–96
• Enoughfigures 97–99
• The Standard Questionsfigures 100–102
• Good Crossingfigures 103–105
• Minutesfigures 106–108
• Within Boundariesfigures 109–111
• A Companion for New Arrivalsfigures 112–114
• The Turn on the Half-Landingfigures 115–117
• For Corrections Onlyfigures 118–120
• AFTER THE FOURTH THIRTYcommentary

PART FIVE

stories forty-one to fifty · Nothing Worth Keeping to The Column

• Nothing Worth Keepingfigures 121–123
• Erratafigures 124–126
• Four Minutesfigures 127–129
• Press Ninefigures 130–132
• The Reservefigures 133–135
• Situations Vacantfigures 136–138
• Aired Quarterlyfigures 139–141
• Now Servingfigures 142–144
• The Standard Vowsfigures 145–147
• The Columnfigures 148–150
• AFTER THE FIFTH THIRTYcommentary

PART SIX

stories fifty-one to sixty · The Observance to Visiting Hours

• The Observancefigures 151–153
• The Poolfigures 154–156
• Service Improvementfigures 157–159
• The Last Wordfigures 160–162
• The Wellfigures 163–165
• The Namingfigures 166–168
• Room-Tonefigures 169–171
• Not Givenfigures 172–174
• The Liminalfigures 175–177
• Visiting Hoursfigures 178–180
• AFTER THE LAST THIRTYcommentary

After the figures

• THE MAPSone city, drawn twice — as it is, and as it is moved through
• THE PERSONSknown by residue · a paragraph each, and no more
• THE PLACESone neighborhood to each story
• THE CITY SYSTEMthe rules, the rates, the calendar, the procedures
• Colophon

It issues no names