Everything, and where it sails.

A

Achenbach, Oswald, his oils of 1883–84, gently set back in motion Fr.·V

Anchor, set in the word RECORD; what holds when everything else moves VII·Pl.

Armillary, the, the crest’s own sphere: three brass rings, graduated, swinging like gimbals about the heart of the earth; they open to hold the whole world as it closes Fr.

Avia pervia, the family motto: the trackless ways are passable Fr.

B

Bells, ship’s, struck at the reader’s own hour; the last dog runs one, two, three, eight foot of every leaf

C

Caffeine, five hours in adults, by its label; the middle clock of three Instr. II

Catchword, the binder’s mark: the next gathering named at the foot of the leaf every leaf

Chapbook, this volume, printed; running heads, folios and your marginalia included any leaf, sent to the press

Chart, the course upon it, soundings, marks and the leg not yet run Fr.

Citations, carried whole inside the link, arriving printed in royal VII

Colophon, of this edition; the types, the press, the hands back matter

Constellations, the two Bears, Cassiopeia, the Swan and Orion, set on the small celestial globe at the heart of the earth Fr.

Curiosity, a ship built of; puts to sea and becomes a rocket II·Pl.

D

Dividers, set in CRAFT; care on one point, repetition on the other III·Pl.

E

Earth, opened into four shells, a night sky at its heart; closed again by the scroll Fr.

Einthoven’s triangle, the heart at its centre and the three limb leads along its sides Instr. I

Errata, errors admitted in print, never corrected silently back matter

F

Figures, every one set one word at a time, like type Pl. See also Words.

G

Glosses, marginal, the argument of the paragraph, kept in the margin as the old treatises kept it VII

Good., stamped white on royal, once the word stands in view Fr., the Admission

H

Half-life, the time it takes to halve; one curve under three clocks Instr. II

Hand, the reader’s, offered over any selected passage: cite it, or write in the margin VII

I

Instruments, mechanisms of the body drawn in your browser, sources on the page and nothing to fill in Instr.

L

Lead II, one heart seen from six sides: the loop and its shadows Instr. I

Lighthouse, set in SIGNAL; its whole job is to keep saying one true thing VI·Pl.

Logbook, kept at sea, in plain hand, while nobody knows how the voyage ends VII

M

Marginalia, the reader’s own, set in pencil, kept on the reader’s shelf alone VII

Match, struck by the scroll; the four wants catch fire Fr., the Admission·Pl.

P

Paintings, living, the sea in them gently moving, the rest kept still Fr.·V

Pigeon, carrier, with the last letter of the book VI, at the end

Plates, the list of, a treatise opens with one; here is this one’s front matter

Pole star, hung on its thread over the title, swaying; the whole sky turns about it, each star drawing its arc as you scroll; it comes down to stand on top of the armillary, over the axis of the world Fr.

Position, the, the ship where she is now; the hour struck by your own clock, the sun at the fix, the reckoning since the living leaf

Provenance, the four hands this volume passed through before mine; entered with their blanks back matter

R

Ribbon, the royal marker: the book keeps your place and offers it back Fr., on returning

Rocket, a ship become; printed line by line, as the ship was read II

Rose, the compass, boxing the family motto; also found where the charts end Pl.·off the chart

S

Serpent, one, on one staff; five thousand years of practice IV·Pl.

Stars, hand-set like print, streaming down past the climb: they are still; we are the moving II

V

Veil, the closed cover, honest about its freight; lifts once the volume is ready Fr., first landing

W

Wave, the Great, claws, spray and an open hollow; it looks like a wall until you learn to read water V·Pl.·I

Words, the only ink in every figure. See Figures.

Wreck register, the seven that did not come back, with the days each stayed afloat and the cause appendix