De-Escalation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgements x
4. Introduction xiv
5. The Beginning xviii
6. Spring 2020
7. Before, After 3
8. Concentration 4
9. Returns 6
10. Breathe 8
11. Airport Security 9
12. Crossing New Thresholds 10
13. The Crash 12
14. Summer 2020
15. On Trails 17
16. What Are You Looking At? 18
17. Twice-Blooming Lilacs 21
18. Curiosity Cabinet 23
19. All the Futures 26
20. The Licence Plate 28
21. Bewildered 29
22. Covid Anxiety 31
23. Downward 33
24. Crime and Punishment/Everything Is Free 34
25. Objects 37
26. Where Is Here and Where Is There? 39
27. The End of Science World 41
28. Why I Can’t Think 43
29. Fall 2020
30. Medicine 49
31. Masks 50
32. The Places Where People Are Not 52
33. Emergencies and Disasters 54
34. In the Airport in October 55
35. Peak Personal Responsibility 56
36. Resignation and the Second Wave 59
37. The River is Alive 61
38. De-Escalation 63
39. Normalized/Panicked 65
40. It’s All Fucking Bullshit 66
41. It’s All Fucking Bullshit 67
42. The Fresh Horrors Device 68
43. The Campsite 70
44. Pandemic Melancholy 71
45. Winter 2021
46. Time of Trial 77
47. Vacation Scandal 78
48. Schadenfreude 82
49. Hermits 84
50. Buffalo Bill’s Defunct 86
51. Be Kind 87
52. Like a Drug Deal 89
53. Hi Mom, It’s Me 90
54. Hi Mom, It’s Me 91
55. Ice Is Solid and Liquid 92
56. Rules and Vacations 93
57. Ice, Again 95
58. Who Are You Going to Believe? 96
59. No Time at the North Pole 98
60. Getting Better or Not? 99
61. Hard Freeze 101
62. Falls the Shadow 102
63. Jellyfish Time 104
64. Walking into the Hill 105
65. Moon Illusion 107
66. Time Dividend 109
67. Adolescent Bardo 112
68. Proprioception 113
69. Lost Places and the Annual Lockdown 115
70. Spring 2021
71. Two Futures 121
72. Brain Studies 122
73. Skiing 125
74. This Is Your Brain on Covid 128
75. This Is Your Brain on Covid 130
76. The Place Becomes Strange 132
77. Life on Mars 135
78. Leonard Cohen at the Whistle Stop Café 136
79. Desolation 139
80. Coda
81. Vaccine Theology 147
82. References 153