There were letters, notes, diaries, and false starts, but only two and half chapters of an uncompleted memoir (all of which have recently been published in The New Yorker).
Maybe that's because he liked Mr. Cole's explanation that his book had 11 and a half chapters because no story about a business should end in chapter 11.
School, however, was "a very nurturing place": she found a group of friends, wrote "two and a half chapters of a novel about a girl who could control probability", and flourished academically.
A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters by Julian Barnes.
There is an entire chapter, for instance, on Baudelaire, a half-chapter on Victor Hugo, a chapter on Eliot and Pound, one called "Lorca, Ginsberg and 'The Faggots' " and a chapter on "Others" (Neruda, Pessoa, Adonis, Mayakovsky).
"Their life together," wrote Hermione Lee in her obituary for the Independent, "was private and unbreakably strong, the half-chapter that makes sense of the history of the world".
Book of Spells is reassuringly rigid in its structure: it consists five chapters, each split in two, with the chance to learn between one and three spells in each half-chapter.
"Let me tell you something about her," he wrote of his wife in the half-chapter of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, while giving away very little.
This bring us to the Parenthesis, or half-chapter, which begins as confessional - Barnes telling us how much he loves his wife - and then turns into a digression on love which manages, somehow, to be both too florid and too cool at the same time.
For a couple of half-chapters, his usual wiry, empirical style gives way to the airier assertions of digital evangelism.
Medievalist Robert Mathiesen contends that the Vangelo manuscript actually represents even less of Aradia, arguing that only chapters I, I and the first half of Chapter IV match Leland's description of the manuscript's contents, and suggests that the other material came from different texts collected by Leland through Maddalena.
