I, Ka, The Six-Sided Snowflake Summary

Upon return to the hotel, Ka left a note for Ipek with the desk clerk asking her to join him in his room. It was over a half-hour before Ipek came to his room, just as he was thinking again what a fool he was to fall in love. She told him she wanted to make love to him, but wouldn't while her father was in the hotel. She then left him to write another poem titled "Privations and Difficulties."

Ka went out again, not knowing where he was going; he thought about going back to see the sheikh again but remembered that his apartment was bugged. Instead he went into the library, where he enjoyed reading issues of Encyclopedia for Life that he had read as a boy and found the description of snow...