Contents
Acknowledgments
African Evening
World Town
Security of the First World
Last
Pore Tune
Janelas
Mack Daddy Manifesto
The Collected Novellas of Gilbert Ryle
They Are Not Bits of Clockwork
They Are as Robinson Crusoes, Commanding
They Are Exploding Just Feet above the Desert Sands
They Cannot Be Taken to Bits
They Are Intrinsically Phosphorescent
They Are Not Motions, Suites, Cabins
They Foment a Revolt
They Have a Private Career
They Are of an Extraordinary Feral Territory
They Come Home in a Torrent of Laughter and a Nubian Eunuch-Powered Litter
The Ivorian “because because"
A Laborious Wakefulness or Was It a Most Unapologetic Whistling in the Ear
The Colony Mating Song
Bronze Age
Chinese Blow Up Doll
Freetown
Everywhere
H.N.I.C.
Flagelliforms
Flagelliform 61: Tilted away
Flagelliform 7
Flagelliform 21: Exile (“To be sure, hot water killsa man, But cold water too kills a man.”)
Flagelliform 22
Flagelliform 3
Flagelliform 45
Flagelliform 50
Flagelliform 13: Night Births
Flagelliform 19: “Snake Foot That Does Not Walk.”
Flagelliform 39: And the Name of That Spear Was, One Place Where It Enters, Nine Places Where the Blood Comes Out
Flagelliform 79
Notes