Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Chronology xi
5. Introduction: Toward a Half-Life of Pat Lowther 1
6. PART I. The Craft of Memory
7. Chapter 1. Three September Twenty-Threes 23
8. Chapter 2. Not about Poetry 40
9. Chapter 3. Canonicity and the 'Cult of the Victim' 71
10. PART II. Complicated Airflows in the House
11. Chapter 4. 'At, Rat, Cat, Sat, Pat' 121
12. Chapter 5. 5823 St George Street 139
13. Chapter 6. A Difficult Flowering 158
14. Chapter 7. That 'Spinning Female Thing' 170
15. Chapter 8. It Happens Every Day 185
16. PART III. Ready to Learn Politics
17. Chapter 9. The First 'Red Flag' 211
18. Chapter 10. The Local Left 223
19. Chapter 11. The Age of the Bird 237
20. Chapter 12. Longitudes, North 252
21. Chapter 13. Longitudes, South 270
22. Chapter 14. Welcome to the League 293
23. PART IV. Philosophy's First Molecule
24. Chapter 15. Infinite Mirror Trips 323
25. Chapter 16. The Land Is What's Left 354
26. Chapter 17. 'History, and Context, and Continuity' 386
27. Acknowledgments 403
28. Notes 409
29. Bibliography 459
30. Illustration Credits 471
31. Index 473