Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. I
4. Ganymede's dog 3
5. In blazing black and white 6
6. That everything's unfair has a certain justice to it 8
7. That nothing's fair has a certain justice to it 10
8. Only as good as the team managing your brand 14
9. Realist paradise 15
10. The Dancing Plague of 1518 16
11. Quirk earnings 17
12. Three hunky punks and one true gargoyle 18
13. The disposition of angels 19
14. Wings 20
15. Goya's dog 21
16. II
17. Introduction of Budweiser to the gods 25
18. Metronome dependent 27
19. The beauty of the way, the goodness of the wayfarers 30
20. Charming spot, inspiring prospects 31
21. Collapse of the wave function 33
22. Russian doll prison 35
23. The obscure charms of the lately extinct cunning folk of New Brunswick 36
24. Lest ye be 38
25. MAYBE IF I SHOUT AT YOU YOU'LL TRUST IN WHAT I'M SAYING 39
26. The Darkest Before Dawn Daycare 40
27. Listening injury 41
28. Breeding habits of the Spectacled Tyrant 43
29. The New Vague 46
30. Nimroddery 47
31. The hour between wolf and dog 49
32. First casualty of the Canadian Ketchup Wars 50
33. How to survive the next Great Canadian Name Famine 52
34. The minced oath 54
35. III
36. The playfulness of skeletons, the sadness of bones 59
37. Santa Anna's lost leg 60
38. The Kazooist of Tiddlesworth 62
39. Cynics 65
40. Out-riddling the judge 67
41. From your lips to Christ's ears 68
42. The traditional piñata 69
43. The standard lay of the case 71
44. I am making all things new 73
45. Hercules and the Moon Men 75
46. The privilege of youth and beauty 76
47. Draco's law 77
48. Conversation in an unremarkable stairwell of the Met 79
49. Shocking tales of redundancy 80
50. The final decision of Gaius Petronius Arbiter 82
51. IV
52. A short necessary treatise on humility 85
53. I prefer the person talking herself out of something over him talking himself in 86
54. Crazy wisdom 88
55. The Museum of Clarity 90
56. Drinking fountain tour of the city 92
57. But god plain forms with elegance does crown 94
58. You forget it in people 96
59. The final renovation 99
60. Takes a lot of pills to make Jesus 101
61. Typical toxic playbook 103
62. Young cuckoo seeks nest, bring own feathers 104
63. The Greeks regretting the invention of theatre 106
64. Translated to bird 108
65. Sky burial 110
66. Acknowledgments 113