Note: The book contains previously published stories (and commentaries on them), plus the linking pieces about Raymond and the night which appear to merge with the last story. It is difficult to determine if the linking pieces are "fact" or fiction.

Synopsis: From the back cover blurb on the first edition: "When an author sits down to write the linking pieces for the stories in his new book, planning to do it by the hours of the night observed by medieval scholars, he is interrupted by phonecalls from his eccentric yet harmless friend, Raymond, a former mental patient with whom he shares some curious notions about the preceived world."