Collected writings of the painter, essayist, and art scholar Anita Albus. Her delicate small-format paintings and her art historical essays have made Anita Albus famous. "In the paintings of Anita Albus, we see things in a way that we have unlearned or forgotten." What Claude Lévi-Strauss says about Anita Albus's painting also applies to her writings. On various occasions, she writes and speaks about Marcel Proust, Jan Vermeer, and Jean-Henri Fabre, tells stories about two little great tits and a barn owl, and shares her passion for cooking. This collection brings together these stories, essays, and marginal notes into an extraordinary reflection of her sensual thinking and precise articulation.