Prologue: Letter to My Father | p. xv |
Infancy and Childhood | |
Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun | p. 3 |
Decline and Fall (i) | p. 9 |
Boys vs. Girls(i | p. 12 |
Origins | p. 14 |
Paradise, Soon Lost | p. 19 |
News Flash: We Are Animals | p. 23 |
Motherhood | p. 27 |
The Actuarial Prime of Life, or Why Children Don't Like Spicy Food | p. 29 |
Sex and Death (i) | p. 32 |
Hoop Dream (ii) | p. 34 |
Bloodline to Star Power (i) | p. 37 |
Adolescence | |
Rattlesnake Lake | p. 43 |
Boys vs. Girls(ii) | p. 49 |
Why Lionesses Prefer Dark Brunettes, or Why Both Men and Women Are Attracted to Deep Voices | p. 53 |
Superheroes | p. 59 |
Hoop Dreams (iv and v) | p. 66 |
Dying Just a Little | p. 71 |
Ye Olde Mind-Body Problem | p. 78 |
Sex and Death (ii) | p. 81 |
Adulthood and Middle Age | |
Decline and Fall (ii) | p. 87 |
Bloodline to Star Power(ii) | p. 98 |
Boys vs. Girls (iii) | p. 102 |
Sex Changes (Everything) | p. 104 |
Memento Mori | p. 108 |
The Trouble with Being Food | p. 111 |
Everything I Know I've Learned from My Bad Back | p. 114 |
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole | p. 121 |
Sex and Death (iii) | p. 124 |
Hoop Dream (viii) | p. 135 |
Old Age and Death | |
Decline and Fall (iii) | p. 139 |
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead | p. 151 |
Boys vs. Girls (iv) | p. 160 |
Chronicle of Death Foretold | p. 164 |
Death Is the Mother of Beauty | p. 173 |
Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life | p. 176 |
How to Live Forever (i) | p. 181 |
How to Live Forever (ii) | p. 189 |
Last Words | p. 194 |
Bloodline to Star Power (iii) | p. 200 |
Sex and Death (iv) | p. 205 |
The Story Told One Last Time, from Beginning to End | p. 211 |
Exit Interviews | p. 214 |
Notes for Eulogy for My Father | p. 218 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 227 |
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