Literary Nonfiction. On subjects including Rene Crevel, translating Antonin Artaud, Chris Marker, autobiographical adventures in Mexico, and Holderlin, this collection of stories and essays reveals the erudite as well as the adventurous side of David Rattray. His writing lies at the conjunction of travel and wisdom where the spiritual informs the sinful. "... the willful wasting of scholarship, artistic, personal identity in getting to other places... the application of dangerously close friendships, drugs, literature and music to these travels. This book is a pilgrimage to unlit flows"--Jim Fletcher, Chemical Imbalance, New York.