Contents
Acknowledgments
I.
Cosmogony
Lares and Penates
Bower Bird
Lady on a Unicycle
Same Lady, Different Unicycle
The Truth About Effects
Genealogy
Girl Under Bug Zapper
Portrait of the Artist with Toothpick Bridge
Itinerant
Mnemosyne
Fisher King
Bildungsroman
II.
I. Big Sandstone Building in Memory of
II. Ecce Signum!
III. Involution
IV. Swan Song
V. Dramatis Personae
VI. Interiors
VII. Offices
VIII. “The monkeys make sorrowful noises overhead”
IX. “I’ve been to the zoo. I said, I’ve been to the zoo”
X. Perspectives
XI. Shaping Behaviors
XII. Women’s Studies
XIII. Ichnology
XIV. Ichthyology
XV. Reciprocity
XVI. Mutatis Mutandis
III.
Tactics: A Short Lesson
Portrait of the Artist with Paint-by-Numbers
Svengali Deck
Plot Twists
Flea Circus
Felix Culpa
Epithalamium
Storm and Stress
Aftermath
Dead Matter
Assisted Living
Miniatures
The Truth About Distance
A Correlated History of Synchronicity