Planned or random, here they come together, people from all corners and ends of life: a painter arguing with a friend about the arrangement of a still life (pebbles and coral, a butterfly, a pearl, and a dove's egg); a boy on a bicycle, joyfully racing along as if outside of time; a wine lover, finally having the precious bottle she has saved for decades brought to her on her deathbed; a man standing before a gap in the curtain of a changing room, captivated as he watches the gap fill first with a warm hue, then with rounded shapes, then with dark lines - a leg?, an arm? - moving back and forth before his eyes, "slowly and swimmingly like a catfish at the bottom of a river." The miniatures in this book capture the world in moments. They are narrative splendor in a confined space, creating scenes in the blink of an eye.