Table of Contents
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Book 5
Pass this note 6
We will meet in the centre of the city 7
City 8
Silent resolutions 9
Online dating 10
Unsolicited 11
Message 12
Crossed 13
After 14
There will come a time 15
Payphone 16
Answer 17
Curses 18
I have to see a man about a horse 19
Man @ urinal with cellphone 20
Sesame street 21
Count 22
Shadows 23
When you get that card in the mail 24
Languages dead 26
The last smoke signal 27
Drum Message 28
Two cans and string 29
Middle age morse code 30
Stock market floor language 31
Whistled languages 32
Death 34
Marconi talks to himself as a child 35
Meucci's notes on the electromagnetic voice transmission 36
Alexander graham bell can't sleep 37
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Seven truths about body language according to forbes 43
Like 44
I'occitane en provence immortelle divine cream 45
After rob ford 46
World war one 47
Wedding letter 48
The disease of cool 49
Twenty six of the most curious webster dictionary words 50
GPS recalculating … 52
Dord 53
Four important rules 54
Text from a sweet prince 55
How to yodel 56
Parents dictate text message to youngest daughter 57
Email dating spam 58
(A message for my computer) 59
New phone 60
April fools 61
Things I've learned from eunoia 62
Audiobook on random 63
57 ways to sign off an email according to forbes 64
My curse tablet 65
La di da 66
Christopher marlowe pocket calls william Shakespeare 67
Guard against vulgar language 68
Yolo 70
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Love long distance 75
Send 76
Phone call 77
On the radio on my way to work 78
Popcorn 79
Kiss me like houdini's wife 80
Crickets 81
Touchscreen skin 82
Telesexagram 83
Sorry 84
Late for dinner 85
Twitter love 86
After kids 87
First reading 88
Walkie talkie 89
Walking away 90
Swim class 91
Learns to skate 92
Clouds 93
Roman candles 94
Italian melting tongues become twisters 95
Mafia yoga 96
Tufino cemetery 97
Calling italy in the eighties 98
Sharing a room with nonna 99
Carretto siciliano 100
Piccione 1945 101
Fragments from nonno's POW letter 102
Talking with my hands 104
Acknowledgements 105
About the Author 107
