In a novel in this language, a man who writes a novel depicting himself at a siege changes the time on one country's clocks to stress “being on top of one's own time.” The housewife Ella appraises the book Sweet Blasphemy in a novel in this language whose chapters all start with the letter “b,” titled The Forty Rules of Love. The Time Regulation Institute is a novel in this language, the subject of another novel in which three questions on style, signature, and blindness are posed to (*) Butterfly, Stork, and Olive. A 2006 novel in this language about Asya and Armanoush titled for the ■END■