Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PART I
5. THE TRADITION 3
6. CHILDHOOD OF A SCIENTIST 5
7. THE EXPLORER 7
8. THE BONE HUNTER 9
9. ARCHAEOLOGIST OBSERVING AN EXCAVATION 11
10. THE PAINTER 13
11. A MAN OF POOR ORIGINS 16
12. LAMENT OF A HUNTER 19
13. PART II
14. THE LIST 23
15. THE DIFFERENCE 24
16. NOON, AUGUST FIELDS 25
17. TO SET LOVE IN ORDER 26
18. ALIVE IN THE DAWN 27
19. DEAF PRESENCE 28
20. HAMMER STROKES 29
21. CIRCUS FOR THE DEAF 31
22. AGAIN 33
23. THE SIGNS 35
24. THE WIDOW QUEEN 37
25. THE WEDDING FEAST 40
26. PART III
27. THE BOY 45
28. GODS THOUGH DOOMED TO DIE 46
29. DAYS ALONG THE BANKS 48
30. ARE YOU AWAKE, CHILD 50
31. MEMORY 52
32. THE GRAIL 53
33. REFLECTION 54
34. DWARF WORLD 55
35. DERELICTS 56
36. THE WANDERERS 57
37. PUTTING UP FOR THE NIGHT 58
38. PART IV
39. THE CHINESE WRITING ACADEMY 63
40. THEY STILL KEPT SCRIBBLING 65
41. STRAND 67
42. THE SECRET MAKER 69
43. THE AGE OF THE PROPHETS 70
44. WE DECIDED THIS WAS ALL 71
45. PART V
46. CIRCE 75
47. DON JUAN 77
48. PANDORA'S BOX 79
49. MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 4 ON THE RECORD PLAYER 81
50. OEDIPUS 83
51. STILL ANOTHER FAUST 85
52. ORPHEUS IN ONTARIO 87
53. XERXES CHASTISES OCEAN 89
54. AHASUERUS READS LUCRETIUS 91
55. THE ANTI-LUCRETIUS OF CARDINAL POLIGNAC 93
56. THE BOY CAESAR 95
57. KINGDOM AND EMPIRE 96
58. PETRA 97
59. PART Vl
60. AENEAS 101
61. THE HELMSMAN PALINURUS 104
62. THE LAND OF COLCHIS 105
63. TITHONUS 107
64. PROMETHEUS 109
65. JONAH TRIES TO REMEMBER 111
66. DANTE'S VERGIL 113
67. AFTER KONG 115
68. MEMNON 116
69. THE FOUR HUNDRED 117
70. PART VII
71. TIRESIAS 123
72. THE SPHINX 127
73. LETTER FROM THE VERGE OF YIN PROVINCE 130
74. LUCRETIUS IN THE NEW WORLD 133
75. Backmatter 136