Saturday by Ian McEwan. Published by Jonathan Cape, 2005. Copyright © Ian
McEwan. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White
Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
We thank Peter Watts for his kind permission to use three passages from Blind-
sight, published by Tom Doherty, Tor, New York, 2006.
We thank Robert Eno for his kind permission to use a passage from his translation
of Zhuangzi: The Inner Chapters (2010/2016), which you can find online at http://
http://www.indiana.edu/~p374/Zhuangzi.pdf.
We thank the Writers House agency for their kind permission to use an excerpt
from Hermann Hesse’s Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game), 1943.