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Introduction -- Create an overview effect -- Encourage moments of yugen -- Astonish your words -- Turn this book into a shovel -- Go sinister -- Assemble a shadow box -- Arrange a wunderkammer -- Design a mappa mundi -- Forge a new identity -- Pursue astral pareidolia -- Construct a curvilinear terrarium -- Contrive a shrine for colors -- Quest for your daemon -- Quiver a witch stick -- Drink air -- Novelize a thrift store -- Transform trash into art -- Haunt your haunts -- Rearrange your childhood bedroom -- Celebrate the unintersting stuff -- Get a zero -- Alienate yourself from yourself -- Memorize a poem peripatetically -- Comb plato's beard -- Irritate a narcissist -- Listen to the glass wizard -- Snort a quarto -- Fabricate a story that has never existed before -- Review books that do not exist -- Imagine your life as a peculiar novel written by a lazy god -- Crank some microfilm -- Welcome the earworm -- Conceive a curse word -- Hatch an aphorism -- Conjure your own medieval monster -- Chinwag with your evil twin -- Dress your doppelganger -- Journey to the uncanny valley -- Consider a victorian doll -- Pass to narnia -- Get from a-z -- Sacralize the absurd -- Do nothing -- Turn off the sound -- List your top five weird actors -- Cop a deadpan -- Watch strangers watch you -- Perform dorian -- Stare at someone for a long time -- Visit an abandoned building -- Pen obituaries -- Rub a tombstone -- Doodle around your grief -- Explore your dark corners -- Suspend a pomander -- Attend your high drone -- Drop pennies to wake yourself up -- Decide if you are asleep or awake -- Scry -- Cast a magic circle -- Cut your own tarot deck -- Master legerdemain -- Eat spheroids -- Fancy a nook -- Carve soap -- Mix your own color -- Make ink -- Inscribe your own runes -- Dream a game of surrealism -- Lay off --Save a nihilist -- Press phospene into being -- Hear your own ears -- Taxonomize silence -- Anatomize something -- Identify with your hydrogen -- Distort time -- Collect toadstools -- Kick over a log -- Sniff play-doh -- Look up -- Build a model of your foot -- Seed a wasteland -- Compose your own atlas obscura -- Speak "takete" -- Form a word that is what it means -- Paint stones -- Be a prophet -- Swerve -- Play the flaneur -- Take your turn -- Glance askance -- Perform the percy switcheroo -- Spend a day as a termite -- Fequent a shoreline -- Manufacure a portable door -- Fear a height -- Author you own lexicon -- Complete a final project -- Acknowledgements -- Resources.