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Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book | p. vii |
Preface to This Edition | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
Incomplete Guide to Symbols and Metaphors | p. xxxviii |
Through the small tall bathroom window, etc. | p. 1 |
Scatology | |
Video games | |
Blood | |
"Blind leaders of the blind" [Bible] | |
Some violence | |
Embarrassment, naked men | |
Mapping | |
Please look. Can You see us, etc. | p. 47 |
California | |
Ocean plunging, frothing | |
Little League, black mothers | |
Rotation and substitution | |
Hills, views, roofs, toothpicks | |
Numbing and sensation | |
Johnny Bench | |
Motion | |
The enemies list, etc. | p. 71 |
Demotion | |
Teachers driven before us | |
Menu | |
Plane crash | |
Light | |
Knife | |
State of the Family Room Address | |
Half-cantaloupes | |
So like a fragile girl | |
Old model, new model | |
Bob Fosse Presents | |
Oh I could be going out, sure | p. 105 |
But no. No no! | |
The weight | |
Seven years one's senior, how fitting | |
John Doe | |
Decay v. preservation | |
Burgundy, bolts | |
Outside it's blue-black and getting darker, etc. | p. 123 |
Stephen, murderer, surely | |
The Bridge | |
Jon and Pontius Pilate | |
John, Moodie, et al. | |
Lies | |
A stolen wallet | |
The 99th percentile | |
Mexican kids | |
Lineups, lights | |
A trail of blood, and then silence | |
When we hear the news at First | p. 167 |
[Some mild nudity] | |
All the hope of history to date | |
An interview | |
Death and suicide | |
Mistakes | |
Keg beer | |
Mr. T | |
Steve the Black Guy | |
A death faked, perhaps (the gray car) | |
A possible escape, via rope, of sheets | |
A broken door | |
Betrayal justified | |
Fuck it. Stupid show, etc. | p. 239 |
Some bitterness, some calculation | |
Or anything that looks un-us | |
More nudity, still mild | |
Of color, who is of color? | |
Chakka the Pakuni | |
Hairy all the crotches are, bursting from panties and briefs | |
The Marina | |
The flying-object maneuver | |
Drama or blood or his mouth foaming or | |
A hundred cymbals | |
Would you serve them grapes? Would that be wrong? | |
"So I'm not allowed" | |
Details of all this will be good | |
We can't do anything about the excrement | p. 281 |
The Future | |
"Slacker? Not me," laughs Hillman | |
Meath: Oh yeah, we love that multicultural stuff | |
Fill out forms | |
"a nightmare WASP utopia" | |
A sexual sort of lushness | |
There has been Spin the Bottle | |
"I don't know" | |
"Thank you, Jesus" | |
"I'm dying, Shal" | |
Robert Urich says no. We were so close | p. 311 |
Laura Branigan, Lori Singer, Ed Begley, Jr. | |
To be thought of as smart, legitimate, permanent. So you do your little thing | |
A bitchy little thing about her | |
A fall | |
The halls, shabbily shiny, are filled with people in small clumps | |
That Polly Klaas guy giving me the finger at the trial | |
Adam, by association, unimpressive | |
Of course it's cold | p. 353 |
The cold when walking off the plane | |
Plans for a kind of personal archaeological orgy or something, from funeral homes to John Hussa, whose mom heated milk once, after Grizzly | |
Weddings | |
A lesbian agnostic named Minister Lovejoy | |
Chad and the copies | |
Leaf pile | |
Another threat | |
Of course she knows | |
Wouldn't everyone be able to tell? | |
The water rising, as if under it already | |
Black Sands Beach is | p. 407 |
No hands | |
Down the hill, the walk | |
Not NAMBLA | |
Birthday, parquet | |
Skye | |
Hot, poisoned blood | |
Jail, bail, the oracle | |
More maneuvers | |
A fight | |
Finally, finally | |
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