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The City Guide, Spoken

A separate English listening companion to the updated diagrams. It discusses endings and connections across the book.

• The City Guide, Spoken
• Before listening
• One. Many Happy Returns
• Two. Nearby
• Three. The Grace Period
• Four. Instructions for the First Hour
• Five. Cheap Words
• Six. Kept
• Seven. The One Who Would Not Clear
• Eight. Final Position
• Nine. Present
• Ten. Crowd, Moved
• Reading interval. A place in the count
• Eleven. The Tank
• Twelve. Reconciliation
• Thirteen. Sub la Kuranta Akvo
• Fourteen. Export
• Fifteen. The Rate
• Sixteen. Therefore
• Seventeen. The Works
• Eighteen. Effects
• Nineteen. Walking the Ground
• Twenty. Stimulus
• Reading interval. Keeping a trace is not keeping a person
• Twenty-one. Sale 41
• Twenty-two. Kindly Confirm
• Twenty-three. Room Four
• Twenty-four. Standing Order
• Twenty-five. The Wing
• Twenty-six. Order Was Restored
• Twenty-seven. Local Mode
• Twenty-eight. What I Have Receipts For
• Twenty-nine. The First One First
• Thirty. Retention
• Reading interval. Whose relief, whose obligation
• Thirty-one. Next Year
• Thirty-two. A Place Is Held
• Thirty-three. Enough
• Thirty-four. The Standard Questions
• Thirty-five. Good Crossing
• Thirty-six. Minutes
• Thirty-seven. Within Boundaries
• Thirty-eight. A Companion for New Arrivals
• Thirty-nine. The Turn on the Half-Landing
• Forty. For Corrections Only
• Reading interval. An invitation can expose an address
• Forty-one. Nothing Worth Keeping
• Forty-two. Errata
• Forty-three. Four Minutes
• Forty-four. Press Nine
• Forty-five. The Reserve
• Forty-six. Situations Vacant
• Forty-seven. Aired Quarterly
• Forty-eight. The Other Listener
• Forty-nine. The Standard Vows
• Fifty. The Column
• Reading interval. Who may tell the scene
• Fifty-one. The Observance
• Fifty-two. The Pool
• Fifty-three. Service Improvement
• Fifty-four. The Last Word
• Fifty-five. The Well
• Fifty-six. The Naming
• Fifty-seven. Room-Tone
• Fifty-eight. Not Given
• Fifty-nine. The Liminal
• Final story. Visiting Hours
• Reading interval. The remainder is not a solution
• The city in relation
• Two hills, no complete plan
• Ways of leaving
• Times that recur
• The fare and the changing gap
• People, places and systems
• People within the Office
• Care, refusal, an unfinished affiliation
• Animals, voices and incomplete identities
• Rooms maintained, rooms used
• Places beside a passage
• Words and accounts
• Faith and the altered companion
• The record beside the event
• Leaving the guide