1: “I knew him when he still considered himself a Futurist.” 2: Swiss father, lawyer. 3: Mother, nurse (1868–1912). 4: Born in Burgdorf, Canton of Berne (1889). 5: Followed his parents’ advice, plump yet handsome. 6: Accident at age nine, fell from a third-story window. 7: Studied philosophy and literature at the University of Zurich. 8: Abandoned, static. 9: (illegible) 10: It was the wrong year to offer Tzara his manifesto. 11: “You have to hear, be read as being (about) collective movement, courageous, his brother acknowledged” (from Speed-Bird, p.156). 12: Dropped out and disappeared in 1911. 13: This is all about timing. 14: Too early for Nabokov (1899–1977). 15: It sat there for years. 16: Maybe Chaplin (1889–1977). 17: His cousin discovered him on the Rue Saint- Cannat in Marseille. 18: Something about a patent for an electromagnetic device (Federal Office for Intellectual Property, Berne, 1908). 19: I’m unable to answer that question here. 20: Don’t forget his mother, who took her own life. 21: What made him a mark: his thorn stick à la Du Fu (712–770). 22: Why not the University of Berne? 23: Pistol, in the woods, near Melchnau. 24: Of course he’s Swiss. 25:—Ask Fritz how far I should go with this—. 26: A man, a bag (include only picture). 27: JJ, Wednesday, 5 April 1916, Seefeldstrasse 54. 28: “Speech and its taste of exile and homeland” (from Speed-Bird, p. 12). 29: So he decided not to go through with it (1919). 30: Information on early childhood spent with an uncle? Or family friend. 31: Speed Poems, he called them. 32. His flat, however, was always left unlocked. 33: “All you heard when you opened the door was music.” 34: Birds. 35: That’s what he wrote about. 36: The case is exemplary, paradigmatic even. 37: Traveled and conducted experiments (draw map). 38: (illegible) 39: He wanted to buy that summerhouse Nietzsche wrote in, Sils-Maria, visit Mount Athos. 40: A planned trip to Mexico with a Latin American poet. 41: It wasn’t González Martínez. 42: But nobody gave a shit. 43: Once she (1900–1983) was still young he kept fucking her. 44: She kept quiet, no letters, but the diary. 45: His first collection sold 33 copies (Speed-Bird, 1909). 46: On recycled materials. 47: Nothing offensive, though. 48: “It was too soon too late” (interview with friend and printer, Lausanne). 49: Find civil record—1918. 50: Several unpublished essays on the Sàmi people (found in 1979). 51: Chapter 4 . . . time and activities in Germany (February 1941–March 1943). 52: (This is the sensitive stuff!?) 53: There were others: Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904), Peider Lansel (1863–1943), Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), Maurice Chappaz, Ullmann (1884–1961), Walser (1878–1956), Albert Steffen (1884–1963), Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Paul Klee, Friedrich Dürrenmatt. 54: JJ, Saturday, 11 January 1941, Schwesternhaus zum Roten Kreuz, last meeting. 55: The neighbors used to tell his children—Alois (1924–1941), Damaris (1927–1962?)—their father should keep the dog from barking. 56: He was the one who fought Jack Johnson (1878–1946), forget Lloyd! 57: According to some (night with Célan [uncanny resemblance] in Neuchâtel [impossible]). 58: Another one with Hemingway, also impossible. 59: (1891–1975) Mother’s voice was “very formal.” 60: “A matriarch.” 61: —I’m not entirely sure she would’ve liked that designation—. 62: French, English, a bit of Italian and, to my surprise, Romansh. 63: Couldn’t stand her anymore. 64: They agreed to return his passport (1955). 65: Red Citroën DS (1956). 66: He loved the stutter of that engine. 67: “The whole room stuffed its mouth with vomit, the sermon” (from Speed-Bird, p. 42). 68: (illegible) 69: Notebooks #3, 8, 14. 70: Note from Borges—new thoughts on Schopenhauer. 71: “He came to see me off at the station.” 72: London, Barcelona, Paris, back to Zurich. 73: Rage and madness and literature. 74: “Then he hailed a taxi.” 75: “So poetry is what it is.” 76: Our story ends with a meeting (1967). 77: The mass grave. 78: “And we endure, amid seas of silence, bored to death” (from Speed-Bird, p. 72).