On the method of this "notebook" -- A sand castle -- Beginning -- The freedom of the maker -- The creator in genesis -- Praising -- The thought of thankfulness -- The birth of a new song -- Freedom from mood -- A sympathetic nature -- Metaphor and music -- Freedom from imagination -- Composing anxiety -- The free work of symbols -- Forming -- Ovid's contests of making -- Forming as knowing -- Gathering toward abstraction -- Rhyming -- Rhyme's opening -- How rhymes rhyme -- Meeting -- A freedom of association -- The visitors -- Persons as makers -- Conditions of making -- Production and reproduction -- The self's materials and the person's reception -- The sand castle