Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double)." Originally included in an issue of the literary magazine Antaeus devoted to travel essays, it is ostensibly a recipe with extended commentary. Another example is the title section of Armenian Papers: Poems 1954 - 1984: actually prose, this purports to be (but evidently is not) a translation from a fragmentary medieval manuscript. American conductor David Woodard praised Mathews' Plaisirs singuliers (1983) as "a long prose piece about masturbation." Mathews used proverbs in many creative ways in his book Selected Declarations of Dependence, which was based on the words found in 46 common English proverbs.<ref>Mieder, Wolfgang. 2019. "All roads lead to 'perverbs'": Harry Mathews' Selected Declarations of Dependence. Proverbium 36:183-216.</ref> He used them to write poems, following self-invented rules. He also created "Perverbs and Paraphrases", complex riddles based on proverbs. In addition, he created anti-proverbs that he called "snips of the tongue", such as "Look before you leave." Among the more important collections of his miscellaneous works are Immeasurable Distances, a gathering of his essays; The Human Country: New and Collected Stories; and The Way Home: Selected Longer Prose. Other works by Mathews include Twenty Lines a Day, a journal, and The Orchard, a brief memoir of his friendship with Georges Perec. Other Mathews invented "Mathews's Algorithm", a method for producing literary works by transposing or permuting elements according to a predetermined set of rules. Death Mathews died on January 25, 2017, in Key West, Florida from natural causes, aged 86. Appearances in fiction Mathews, along with his second wife Marie Chaix, appears as a minor character in the novels What I Have Written by John A. Scott, The Correspondence Artist by Barbara Browning, and The Hidden Keys by André Alexis. Mathews, among other literary luminaries, makes an appearance as a party guest in Paul Auster's novel 4321. Bibliography The Conversions. Random House, New York, 1962. Repr.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1997. (novel) Tlooth. Paris Review Editions/ Doubleday, Paris/ Garden City, N.Y., 1966. Repr.: Dalkey Archive, 1998. (novel) The Ring: Poems 1956-69. Juillard Editions, Leeds, U.K., 1970. The Planisphere. Burning Deck, Providence, R.I., 1974 (poetry) The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium. Harper & Row, 1975. Repr.: Dalkey Archive, 1999. . (novel) Le Savoir des rois: poèmes à perverbes. La Bibliothèque oulipienne, no. 5, 1976. (poetry) Trial Impressions. Burning Deck, Providence, R.I., 1977. (poetry) Selected Declarations of Dependence. Z Press, Calais, Vt.,