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Preface

For publisher F.C., a writer forgetting to note down a full name and address on the envelope containing his or her manuscript before mailing it out, though a rare phenomenon, was not completely unheard of. Having, moreover, been marked by psychoanalysis in his youth, he did not hesitate to diagnose symptoms of paraprax-is1, reckless action – sending a text to the wrong person, say, or getting the wrong gift for the right one – which is merely a manifestation of both an unconscious con-flict and a latent desire of the perpetrator.

He definitely did not, on the contrary, rank in the same category the envelope with the manuscript below which, upon receipt – surrendering to the look at that it had as a title – he read in one go.

It was more akin to the basket with the bastard new-born, abandoned in olden days by its unfortunate mother at the doorstep of orphanages, monasteries or

1 Acte manqué in French, fehlleistung in German.

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wealthy families. And that, mainly because of the con-tent, not so much of the envelope as of the manuscript itself. About what, to start with, it said but also what it contained. Because apart from the main script, there were also comments in the margins - comments which, funnily enough, ended up being an integral part of the whole. The decision to publish the manuscript, exactly as it was – anonymously even – had been taken by F.C before he had even finished reading it.

He wanted to believe that the sender would not nec-essarily be against it. His printer, probably yes, rais-ing concerns of a more technical nature. There are no dead-ends in literature, however, he would counter. Much like in democracy.