Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Author’s note
Introduction
Part I: The Man
1. Farmers, Flappers, and Fuck-Ups
2. Strange New Cottages in California
3. From 440 Yards to B-29s
4. Kamm’s Brick Block
5. You Can’t Fix It. You Can’t Make It Go Away
6. Panegyric for Illinois
7. Westward the Course of Empire Goeth
8. East-West, Home Is Best
9. On a Disappearing Road
10. It’s a Real Rock (Believe This First)
11. Hard Start
12. Big Sur
13. My Love the Fisherman Comes Back
14. I Saw Myself a Ring of Bone
Part II: The Mountain
15. The Journal of a Strategic Withdrawal, Part 1
16. Can One Spend His Life Drunk Like Li Po?
17. The Journal of a Strategic Withdrawal, Part 2
18. The Mountain Man Returns
19. “Bread vs. Mozart’s Watch”
20. Lost
Part III: The City
21. Holding Court
22. Was Berkeley Too Bizarre?
23. A Teacher of Truths
24. Revealing the Mysteries
25. Creating the Condition You Describe
26. Peonies and Columbine
27. Seeking Perfect Total Enlightenment
Epilogue
Notes
Index