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Like anybody coming to this book with eyes open, I see myself as open to, even excited by, challenging fiction. I've read a fair amount of high-concept, plotless, stream-of-consciousness writing. But I still found this extremely hard to get into, particularly the first (and title) story, which is a wave of words about...a couple...who are God...or mind and matter? The others get a bit more accessible: there is one which is mostly describing different rooms, one which talks a lot about what went on in bed between Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, and one which tells the life of the devil as a rather nasty prankster. I did appreciate some of the individual sentences - it was probably a mistake to imbibe this in audiobook form. Still planning to plough on with The Tunnel later this year!