ASTONISH YOURSELF:

101 EXPERIMENTS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF

EVERYDAY LIFE

Roger-Pol Droit
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1. Call yourself
2. Empty a word of its meaning
3. Look in vain for “I”
4. Make the world last twenty minutes
5. See the stars below you
6. See a landscape as a stretched canvas
7. Lose something and not know what
8. Recall where you were this morning
9. Hurt yourself briefly
10. Feel eternal
11. Telephone at random
12. Rediscover your room after a journey
13. Drink while urinating
14. Make a wall between your hands
15. Walk in the dark
16. Dream of all the places in the world
17. Peel an apple in your head
18. Imagine yourself high up
19. Imagine your imminent death
20. Try to measure existence
21. Count to a thousand
22. Dread the arrival of the bus
23. Run in a graveyard
24. Play the fool
25. Watch a woman at her window
26. Invent lives for yourself
27. Look at people from a moving car
28. Follow the movement of ants
29. Eat a nameless substance
30. Watch dust in the sun
31. Resist tiredness
32. Overeat
33. Play the animal
34. Contemplate a dead bird
35. Come across a childhood toy
36. Wait while doing nothing
37. Try not to think
38. Go to the hairdresser
39. Shower with your eyes closed
40. Sleep on your front in the sun
41. Go to the circus
42. Try on clothes
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43. Calligraphize
44. Light a fire in the hearth
45. Be aware of yourself speaking
46. Weep at the cinema
47. Meet up with friends after several years
48. Browse at the bookseller's
49. Become music
50. Pull out a hair
51. Walk in an imaginary forest
52. Demonstrate on your own
53. Stay in the hammock
54. Invent headlines
55. Listen to short-wave radio
56. Turn off the sound on the TV
57. Rediscover a childhood scene that seemed larger
58. Get used to eating something you don't like
59. Fast for a while
60. Rand for ten minutes
61. Drive through a forest
62. Give without thinking about it
63. Look for a blue food
64. Become a saint or sinner
65. Recover lost memories
66. Watch someone sleeping
67. Work on a holiday
68. Consider humanity to be an error
69. Inhabit the planet of small gestures
70. Disconnect the phone
71. Smile at a stranger
72. Enter the space of a painting
73. Leave the cinema in daytime
74. Plunge into cold water
75. Seek out immutable landscapes
76. Listen to a recording of your voice
77. Tell a stranger she is beautiful
78. Believe in the existence of a smell
79. Wake up without knowing where
80. Descend an interminable staircase
81. Swallow your emotion
82. Fix the ephemeral
83. Decorate a room
84. Laugh at an idea
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85. Vanish at a pavement cafe

86. Row on a lake in your room
87. Prowl at night
88. Become attached to an object
89. Sing the praises of Santa Claus
90. Play with a child
91. Encounter pure chance
92. Recite the telephone directory on your knees
93. Think about what other people are doing
94. Practice make-believe everywhere
95. Kill people in your head
96. Take the subway without going anywhere
97. Remove your watch
98. Put up with a chatterbox
99. Clean up after the party
100. Find the infinitesimal caress
101. Etc.