“…Michael Shallcross -- Dedication / Michael Shallcross -- Acknowledgements / Michael Shallcross -- Illustrations / Michael Shallcross -- Notes on Contributors / Michael Shallcross -- Like a Burr: Aphoristic Writing and Modernity / Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross -- Aphoristic Gaps and Theories of the Image / Peter Robinson -- ‘A Ruin Amidst Ruins’: Modernity, Literary Aphorisms, and Romantic Fragments / Mark Sandy -- Social Notes: Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, and the Medium of Aphorism / Simon Reader -- Brilliancy and Mimicry: Epigrammatic Wit in Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, and Ada Leverson / Kostas Boyiopoulos -- We Moderns: Katherine Mansfield and Edwin Muir in the New Age / Chris Mourant -- ‘You must remain broken up’: Wyndham Lewis, Laughter and the Subjective Aphorism / Alan Munton -- Knowing Nothing: Wilde and Beckett Deranging the Aphorism / Rebekah Scott -- Aphoristic Interruption in StevieSmith / Noreen Masud -- Stepping into the Same River Twice: Jorge Luis Borges’s Aphoristic Short Stories …”