Nox philologiae : Aulus Gellius and the fantasy of the Roman library / Erik Gunderson.

Editor's Preface -- Original Title Page -- The Author's Preface: Verfremdungseffekt -- The Other Preface: Again and Again -- The Third Preface: Gellius' Preface -- Table of Contents -- VOLUME ONE -- Book One: Authority -- Book Two: Logic -- Book Three: Usage -- Book Four: Index of Names -- Book Five: Index of Things -- VOLUME TWO -- Book Six: Books of Books -- Book Seven: Authors of the Author -- Book Eight: Readers of Readings -- Appendix: It was to Be/It is to Be -- Unplaced Fragments -- Spurious Fragments -- Notes.

This esoteric and original study focuses on the equally singular work of Aulus Gellius--a Roman author and grammarian (ca. 120-180 A.D.), possibly of African origin. Gellius's only work, the twenty-volume "Noctes Atticae"," "is an exploding, sometimes seemingly random text-cum-diary in which Gellius jotted down everything of interest he heard in conversation or read in contemporary books