Contents: "Sunday, before falling asleep": A primal scene -- Agua viva: How to follow a trinket of water -- The apple in the dark: The temptation of understanding -- "The egg and the chicken": Love is not having -- "Felicidade clandestina'': The promise of having what one will have -- The hour of the star: How does one desire wealth or poverty? Series Title: Theory and history of literature, v. 73.