Contents: Gospel & Universe
Table of Contents
Annotated Contents
Preface
Situating Agnosticism
Approach, Overview, & Aim
Rivers of Change
Paradox
P.O.V. 1: Family
P.O.V. 2: Literature
P.O.V. 3: Fault Lines
A Positive-Sum Philosophy
Freedom of Thought
Introduction
Layout
Q & A (Chart)
Core Beliefs
Two Infinities
The Mysterious Heavens
Huxley's Definition
To Believe and Not to Believe
Types of Agnosticism
Sitting on Fences
A Literary Approach
On Nightingales and Unified Sensibility
The Unconvinced
Agnostic Geometry
Parma
Florence
Rome
Skeptics & Stoics
A Rough Chronology
Agnosticism Among the Isms
Not Quite Skeptical 1
Not Quite Skeptical 2
Nor Quite Stoic 1 - Meditations
Nor Quite Stoic 2 - The Bigger Picture
The Sum of All Space
Third Spinning Rock from the Sun
Of Sand & Salt
Competing Explanations
Cities of God
Dogma and the Stars
The Chinese Sky
The Outer Reaches 1
The Outer Reaches 2
The Unknown Arcs of a Sphere
Alas, Poor Yorick
Science & Mystery
Overview
Possible Explanations
Dante's Journey
Don't Forget the Miller
Summa Post Theologica
Primum Mobile
Bruno & Saint Francis
Secrets and Mysteries
Two Sides of the Fence
The Crystal Ball of Science
Man's Best Friend
A River Journey
Mountain Springs
A Chinese Interlude
Montaigne
French Currents
Riverboats & Sheep
Fry Day: the Atheist Fish
Prufrock
Rome 1: Sunset
Rome 2: Odysseus, Prufrock...
Rome 3: The Eye of the Gods
Heraclitus: Athens & Allahabad
Rushdie's Sea of Stories
Three Little Words
Critical Distance
Locke's Double Key
Locked Into This World
Que Sais-je?
Teacher
Montaigne's Balance
Pyrrho's Equilibrium & Zhuangzi's Pivot
Hegel's Dialectic
Whitman's Cosmos
Byron: Carrying Sail
Byron: Trickster of Change
Keats' Negative Capability
The English Garden of Sense
Tennyson's Ulysses
On Warnings
The Problem With Explanations
Señor Locke
The Gringo Takes Stock
Under the Umbrellas
Campfires
Beneath the Aonian Mount 1
Seeing Double
Train of Memory
Howling at the Moon
Beneath the Aonian Mount 2
In the Valley of Darién
Aura 1
The Tiny Pyramids of Ra
Señor Locke and the Jaguar
Aura 2
Cuba
Aura 3: Inside Van Gogh's Ear
Aura 4: In the Shadow of Macbeth
The Floating World
At The Wild & Fog
A Misty Maze, But Not Without A Plan
Pope: A Mighty Maze
What the Dickens
Love Amid the Fog
God Among the Scientists
Hutton's Hammer
Jardine's Monkeys
Darwin's God
A Passage to Forster
From London to the Marabar Caves
Almost Existential
Poor, Bare, Forked
Between the Flippers
Doctors of Revolt
In the Shadow of Borges
The Status Quo
Hitler's Perfect World
Ontology Precedes Epistemology
The Permeable Self
Starbucking
Cloud Illusions
Petals
The Mermaid
The Epic Heroine
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Miller
Neptune
The Queen of Love
Beyond Alienation
Myth & Mysticism
Many Tribes
Overview
Six Versions of Infinity
The Creation of Outcasts
A Specific Version of Infinity
Nothing in Damascus
Myth and Religion
East & West
One God
Anti-Definitions
All Those Things the Wise Men Say
The Currents of Sumer
Introduction & Overview
Currents of History
The Whore
The Flood
The Exegete & the Philologist
Zero & Positive Sums
More Zero Sums
Gaming Out
The Bounty of Sumer & Akkad
Friendly Gods
Again, Minus 1 Plus 1
Rewind & Fast-Forward
Grace: The Most Positive Sum
Myths of Sin & Divinity
The Archaeology of Mystery
Post & Other Scripts
The Return of Enlil
Systems
Mere Religion?
Systems of Dread & Hope
Currents of Christianity
Abraham's Vice
Agora Phobia
Selective Grace
Exclusive Geographies
Christianity 2.0
Systems of Operation
Veils
Gods & Souls
The Scoundrels of Theology
Versions of Deity
Churches of Thought
Unlimited Agnosticism
"Open Your Heart" 1
"Open Your Heart" 2
"Open Your Heart" 3
Saint Francis
Rapt Angel
San Francisco
The Baby and the Bathwater
Keeping Baby
Believe It or Else
Pascal's Wager 1: Pensées
Pascal 2: It Isn't Necessary to Wager
Pascal 3: God & Infinity
Pascal 4: Zhuangzi in Tipasa
Pascal 5: The Cosmic Casino
Holy Dreamers
From Kerry to Crete
Canticle to the Stars
The Apple Merchant of Babylon
The Genealogy of Mortals
Moses & the Apple Merchants of Babylon
Eastern Gods
Golden Calves
The Holy Bin
Final Judgments
Aziz & the Crimson Cup
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 1
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 2
In the Beginning
Adam and the Snake
The Journey West
The Priest's Dilemma
Rivers of God
Pinpoints of Light
The Golden Triangle
Nineveh
Que Sais-je?
Priest & Pastor
Believing in the Mystery
Introduction
The God That Has No Name
A Global Picture
Rushdie: The Fiction of Doubt
The Rise of the Simurg
All the Letters Mixed Up
When Religions Collide
When Religions Come Together
Eruptions of the Sacred
The Return of the Simurg
Iconoclasts: Flapping Eagle
The Two Adams
The Rock: Amina Sinai
The Poet & the Three Weird Sisters
The Flight of Angels: Gabriel and Allelujah
Ars Moriendi
Teeing Off
Batter Up!
Sky Train
Dying by the Law
Post Scriptum, Post Mortem, Agnosticum
On Time
Like Flies to Wanton Boys
The Deadly Force of Chance
Living by the Numbers
Dying by the Numbers
The Readiness is All
Beyond Whose Bourne
On the Pageant Faded
Short Fiction
Short Fiction (Contents)
Uno, Due, Tre
Roman Holiday 1: Campo de' Fiori
- 2. Outskirts
Let Me Be Thy Choir
The Wine-Dark Sea 1: Seduction
- 2: Eat, Play, Leave
The Dance of the Seven Veils
Le Bijou 1: The Star of Montmartre
- 2: The Scholar
- 3: The Third Act
The Apple Merchant of Babylon 1: Genesis
- 2 : Begin at the Beginning
- 3: The Confused Astronomers of Babylon
- 4: Again, In the Beginning
The Blue-Eyed Sicilian 1: I, Claudia
- 2: Il Giardino Inglese
- 3: Second Base
Poetry
Poetry (Contents)
The 19th Hole
That Undiscovered Country
Star Struck
Cosmic Writ
Petits Poèmes en Prose
Travel
La Bellezza
Addictions
Techno Buzz
Working the Traps
Letting Go
Politics
Politics: Contents
Tarry Doom
Nothing in Damascus
Transparently Multicultural
An English Department on Fallar Discordia
The Algorithmics
The Carrot
Three Girls Who
Caritas
The Reign of Error: 1. Prophecy
- 2: Trumpet
- 3: Doom
Crisis 2022
Contents
Preface
With Open Eyes
Gogol & Co.
Down South
The Time is Out of Joint
Vicarious Experience
Mirrors
4 Types of Narrative
Exceptional Violence
Fog & Shadow
The Global South
The Ghost of Crises Past
Dream Vacation 2005
Rip Van Winkle
Jovanka on the Bridge
Both In and Out of the Game
Political Modes of Being
Two Novels and an Overcoat
Russians Souls
Literature & Subversion
Behind the Scenes
Unified Sensibilities
The Dangerous Years
The Eye of the Storm
The Dark Which Has No End
Fearless Leader of the Global South
Golden Bridges
Exceptionalism
Our Lady of the Harbour
War: Songs & Poems
The Tao of Putin
Macaron, Not Macron
AD / BC
About Me
About Me (Contents)
1960 - 1980
1980 - 2000
2000 - 2020
1980s Asia
Intro, Map, & Contents
Japan
Korea & Taiwan
Yangshao & Dali
Kunming to Kashgar
The Philippines
Thailand
India
Photos
Photos (Places & Art)
Paris, 2010 (photos)
Mexico (Photos)
Croatia & Slovenia
Ireland
Vancouver
Golf Courses in B.C.
Athens
Russian Spires
Salta & Iguazú
Taormina to Turin
Rome: About Town
From Mallorca to Madrid
Mesopotamia: from Sumer to Assyria
Egypt: Cats, Coffins, & the Afterlife
Roman Sculture: Dramas in Stone
Florence: the Sacred & the Profane
Pisa: Towers & Triptychs
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 1. from The British Museum
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 2. from Le Guimet
THE FRACTAL HEART - Introductory Pages
Contents
Chart
Characters
Glossary A - F
Glossary G - Z
Maps
Story Lines
Timelines
LINES
The Bright and Swirling Sky
Algoritmo
By the Light of Fractals 1
The Actress
Equations
Di Parma
By the Light of Fractals 2
On Lactar8
Dinner Guests from Baulis Prime
Light
The Collected Works of Humpty Dumpty
The Homework Blues
And Yet
The Eggs of Cosmic Chance
CHANGES
The Big Four 1
The Big Four 2
Life 2.0
Six and Seven
Two Priests
On the Wing 1: Beneath the Old Apple Tree
On the Wing 2: Natural Selection
On the Wing 3: The Grim Brothers
On the Wing 4: Quest
On Becoming Human
Lingua Franca 1
Lingua Franca 2
Seduction
And Carbuncle His Eyes
DISCOVERIES
Antiny the 23rd
Pietro Parlante
I, Claudia
Zadar & Qualini
The Swarm
Clark Kent
The Hidden Star
Mirror, Mirror
Between the Sheets
By the Light of Fractals 3
ATTRACTIONS
i. The Water Damsel
The Blue Bubble
On Meliflorium
Prester John
The Lady with the White Fangs
On Becoming Alien
My Own Personal Rheinmaiden
Constellations
ii. Golden Letters
J. Alfred
The Mothership
Spectra & Sentience
SCHEMES
Fra Sole
The Blue Dreamers
Black Diamond Arts
J. Alfred & the Great White
The Little Merman
Ulysses, Son of Laërtes
The Brave Little Tailor
The Tarry Dot
Poetry in the Deep
Escape from Aatari Doom
The Best Laid Plans
The Ascendancy of Baulis Prime
OUT OF COUNTRY
Maria de Tondo
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Enigma
The Academic
Across the Street
iii. At the Caffè
iv. Auberge Espagnol
Alicia
Alicia del Espejo
Spin the Bottle
The Flight of the Chronus
The English Garden
MASTERS OF CHANCE
Dreamer
Probabilities
Hammerfest
In the Contabri Bar
Venus & the Fly
A Tale of Two Worlds
Fractal Masters & Fractal Mystics
The Tyrian Corridor
At the Pangolin Gardens
The Nature of the Game
Di Firenze
The Bright Hills of Yunnan
The Chancemasters of Die
TALES
The Ancient Mariner
Claudine de Montréal
Yunnan Gold & the Madeleine
All the Tea in China
The Stories They Told Themselves
The Librarian's Tale
On the Rebound
The Waitresses of Chengdu
Antiny & the Wizard Ship of Albinon
The Völva
Infraction 101
Bar Songs
GIRLS WHO
Spirals
The Political Climate
Lestatique
The Finest Ear-Muffs Money Can Buy
At Sea
The Book of Fractals
Dance of the Seven Veils
Five & Six
The Seventh Veil
Back to Black
Lindisfarne
Two Friends
The Girl Who
White Light on Fractal
Assembly
OTHER GIRLS WHO DO TOO
Jason
Roma I
Roma II
Still Waters
Fax Americana
Farenn
Times New Roman
Medea
Madame Dupont
The Monkey King
The Elkbalam
1825
Proust in the Morning
Drive Our Ships to New Lands
Molotova the Whip
IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF DOOM
As Loki Steers Us
Transcanada: A Dream of Combustion
Talfar
Güsfreude
Virus
Twilight of the Idols
All Shook Up
The Storm Troopers Return
Alien Extraction
Di Roma
Total Collapse
The Luxorium
The Anunnaki
An Elusive Metaphor
--
EARTH 2.7
Screen Time
In the Field of Flowers
Les Mouches
In the Seventh House
Dear Matthew
At First Sight
First Contact
The French Maid
In the New Beginning
En Route to the Old Cafe
Rablanar & the OC
La Vie en Orange
Au Bord de la Seine
The Soul Star
The Baulomorphs Get It On
From the Battery
NEW LINES OF CONTROL
Rule 2.7
The Crazy Diamond
The Condensation of Demon Saints
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive
The Ties That Bind
The Bind That Flies
In the Ephemera Café
The Monster in the Manor
The Golden Hill
UNDERGRAD ENGLISH
Contents
Introduction: Higher Learning
Essay Structure
Writing Tips & Conventions
Outlines
Documentation
Marking
LITERARY ANALYSIS
Literary Analysis: Six Categories
1: Space
-- Whitman
-- The Falling Girl
2: Time
-- Time in Slaughterhouse-Five
-- Timelines
-- Sci & Fi
3: Character
-- States of Mind
-- Insanity
4: Relationship
-- Moulin Rouge!
-- Romance
5: Theme
-- Paint It Black
-- Sonnet 116
6. Style
-- A-N
-- O-Z
-- The Epic
-- Irony
Six Categories In Black Robe
Black Robe Context
The Rose & Skull: Hamlet
The Rose & Skull: Introduction
HAMLET
Background to Hamlet
Passages 1
Passages 2
Passages 3
Passages 4
Passages 5
Ophelia (1109)
Response 1A
1B
Response 2A
2B
2C
Response 3A
3B
3C
Response 4A
4B
4C
The Rose & Skull: Lovers in a Dangerous Time
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME
Colonialism & the Cold War (1109)
THE QUIET AMERICAN
QA Context
QA Interview & Article
QA Sample Essay
Response 1A
1B
1C
Response 2A
2B
2C
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
YD Context
YD Sukarno's Year
YD Essay & Article
YD A Tricky Narrative
YD Hinduism
Response 3A
3B
3C
3D
3E
Comparative Essays -- Betrayal and Good Intentions
-- Sex Trade & Orientalism
ACADEMIC WRITING
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
16 Rhetorical Strategies
Definition
-- Lord of War
-- Mad Men
-- Twain & Gore
2A
2B
-- Gandhi
Carr
R 3A
3B
3C
Calvino
4A
4B
4C
-- Atwood
Music & Graphics
Music Description
Music Terms A-L
Music Terms M-Z
Boardwork
Home
Contents: Gospel & Universe
Table of Contents
Annotated Contents
Preface
Situating Agnosticism
Approach, Overview, & Aim
Rivers of Change
Paradox
P.O.V. 1: Family
P.O.V. 2: Literature
P.O.V. 3: Fault Lines
A Positive-Sum Philosophy
Freedom of Thought
Introduction
Layout
Q & A (Chart)
Core Beliefs
Two Infinities
The Mysterious Heavens
Huxley's Definition
To Believe and Not to Believe
Types of Agnosticism
Sitting on Fences
A Literary Approach
On Nightingales and Unified Sensibility
The Unconvinced
Agnostic Geometry
Parma
Florence
Rome
Skeptics & Stoics
A Rough Chronology
Agnosticism Among the Isms
Not Quite Skeptical 1
Not Quite Skeptical 2
Nor Quite Stoic 1 - Meditations
Nor Quite Stoic 2 - The Bigger Picture
The Sum of All Space
Third Spinning Rock from the Sun
Of Sand & Salt
Competing Explanations
Cities of God
Dogma and the Stars
The Chinese Sky
The Outer Reaches 1
The Outer Reaches 2
The Unknown Arcs of a Sphere
Alas, Poor Yorick
Science & Mystery
Overview
Possible Explanations
Dante's Journey
Don't Forget the Miller
Summa Post Theologica
Primum Mobile
Bruno & Saint Francis
Secrets and Mysteries
Two Sides of the Fence
The Crystal Ball of Science
Man's Best Friend
A River Journey
Mountain Springs
A Chinese Interlude
Montaigne
French Currents
Riverboats & Sheep
Fry Day: the Atheist Fish
Prufrock
Rome 1: Sunset
Rome 2: Odysseus, Prufrock...
Rome 3: The Eye of the Gods
Heraclitus: Athens & Allahabad
Rushdie's Sea of Stories
Three Little Words
Critical Distance
Locke's Double Key
Locked Into This World
Que Sais-je?
Teacher
Montaigne's Balance
Pyrrho's Equilibrium & Zhuangzi's Pivot
Hegel's Dialectic
Whitman's Cosmos
Byron: Carrying Sail
Byron: Trickster of Change
Keats' Negative Capability
The English Garden of Sense
Tennyson's Ulysses
On Warnings
The Problem With Explanations
Señor Locke
The Gringo Takes Stock
Under the Umbrellas
Campfires
Beneath the Aonian Mount 1
Seeing Double
Train of Memory
Howling at the Moon
Beneath the Aonian Mount 2
In the Valley of Darién
Aura 1
The Tiny Pyramids of Ra
Señor Locke and the Jaguar
Aura 2
Cuba
Aura 3: Inside Van Gogh's Ear
Aura 4: In the Shadow of Macbeth
The Floating World
At The Wild & Fog
A Misty Maze, But Not Without A Plan
Pope: A Mighty Maze
What the Dickens
Love Amid the Fog
God Among the Scientists
Hutton's Hammer
Jardine's Monkeys
Darwin's God
A Passage to Forster
From London to the Marabar Caves
Almost Existential
Poor, Bare, Forked
Between the Flippers
Doctors of Revolt
In the Shadow of Borges
The Status Quo
Hitler's Perfect World
Ontology Precedes Epistemology
The Permeable Self
Starbucking
Cloud Illusions
Petals
The Mermaid
The Epic Heroine
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Miller
Neptune
The Queen of Love
Beyond Alienation
Myth & Mysticism
Many Tribes
Overview
Six Versions of Infinity
The Creation of Outcasts
A Specific Version of Infinity
Nothing in Damascus
Myth and Religion
East & West
One God
Anti-Definitions
All Those Things the Wise Men Say
The Currents of Sumer
Introduction & Overview
Currents of History
The Whore
The Flood
The Exegete & the Philologist
Zero & Positive Sums
More Zero Sums
Gaming Out
The Bounty of Sumer & Akkad
Friendly Gods
Again, Minus 1 Plus 1
Rewind & Fast-Forward
Grace: The Most Positive Sum
Myths of Sin & Divinity
The Archaeology of Mystery
Post & Other Scripts
The Return of Enlil
Systems
Mere Religion?
Systems of Dread & Hope
Currents of Christianity
Abraham's Vice
Agora Phobia
Selective Grace
Exclusive Geographies
Christianity 2.0
Systems of Operation
Veils
Gods & Souls
The Scoundrels of Theology
Versions of Deity
Churches of Thought
Unlimited Agnosticism
"Open Your Heart" 1
"Open Your Heart" 2
"Open Your Heart" 3
Saint Francis
Rapt Angel
San Francisco
The Baby and the Bathwater
Keeping Baby
Believe It or Else
Pascal's Wager 1: Pensées
Pascal 2: It Isn't Necessary to Wager
Pascal 3: God & Infinity
Pascal 4: Zhuangzi in Tipasa
Pascal 5: The Cosmic Casino
Holy Dreamers
From Kerry to Crete
Canticle to the Stars
The Apple Merchant of Babylon
The Genealogy of Mortals
Moses & the Apple Merchants of Babylon
Eastern Gods
Golden Calves
The Holy Bin
Final Judgments
Aziz & the Crimson Cup
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 1
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 2
In the Beginning
Adam and the Snake
The Journey West
The Priest's Dilemma
Rivers of God
Pinpoints of Light
The Golden Triangle
Nineveh
Que Sais-je?
Priest & Pastor
Believing in the Mystery
Introduction
The God That Has No Name
A Global Picture
Rushdie: The Fiction of Doubt
The Rise of the Simurg
All the Letters Mixed Up
When Religions Collide
When Religions Come Together
Eruptions of the Sacred
The Return of the Simurg
Iconoclasts: Flapping Eagle
The Two Adams
The Rock: Amina Sinai
The Poet & the Three Weird Sisters
The Flight of Angels: Gabriel and Allelujah
Ars Moriendi
Teeing Off
Batter Up!
Sky Train
Dying by the Law
Post Scriptum, Post Mortem, Agnosticum
On Time
Like Flies to Wanton Boys
The Deadly Force of Chance
Living by the Numbers
Dying by the Numbers
The Readiness is All
Beyond Whose Bourne
On the Pageant Faded
Short Fiction
Short Fiction (Contents)
Uno, Due, Tre
Roman Holiday 1: Campo de' Fiori
- 2. Outskirts
Let Me Be Thy Choir
The Wine-Dark Sea 1: Seduction
- 2: Eat, Play, Leave
The Dance of the Seven Veils
Le Bijou 1: The Star of Montmartre
- 2: The Scholar
- 3: The Third Act
The Apple Merchant of Babylon 1: Genesis
- 2 : Begin at the Beginning
- 3: The Confused Astronomers of Babylon
- 4: Again, In the Beginning
The Blue-Eyed Sicilian 1: I, Claudia
- 2: Il Giardino Inglese
- 3: Second Base
Poetry
Poetry (Contents)
The 19th Hole
That Undiscovered Country
Star Struck
Cosmic Writ
Petits Poèmes en Prose
Travel
La Bellezza
Addictions
Techno Buzz
Working the Traps
Letting Go
Politics
Politics: Contents
Tarry Doom
Nothing in Damascus
Transparently Multicultural
An English Department on Fallar Discordia
The Algorithmics
The Carrot
Three Girls Who
Caritas
The Reign of Error: 1. Prophecy
- 2: Trumpet
- 3: Doom
Crisis 2022
Contents
Preface
With Open Eyes
Gogol & Co.
Down South
The Time is Out of Joint
Vicarious Experience
Mirrors
4 Types of Narrative
Exceptional Violence
Fog & Shadow
The Global South
The Ghost of Crises Past
Dream Vacation 2005
Rip Van Winkle
Jovanka on the Bridge
Both In and Out of the Game
Political Modes of Being
Two Novels and an Overcoat
Russians Souls
Literature & Subversion
Behind the Scenes
Unified Sensibilities
The Dangerous Years
The Eye of the Storm
The Dark Which Has No End
Fearless Leader of the Global South
Golden Bridges
Exceptionalism
Our Lady of the Harbour
War: Songs & Poems
The Tao of Putin
Macaron, Not Macron
AD / BC
About Me
About Me (Contents)
1960 - 1980
1980 - 2000
2000 - 2020
1980s Asia
Intro, Map, & Contents
Japan
Korea & Taiwan
Yangshao & Dali
Kunming to Kashgar
The Philippines
Thailand
India
Photos
Photos (Places & Art)
Paris, 2010 (photos)
Mexico (Photos)
Croatia & Slovenia
Ireland
Vancouver
Golf Courses in B.C.
Athens
Russian Spires
Salta & Iguazú
Taormina to Turin
Rome: About Town
From Mallorca to Madrid
Mesopotamia: from Sumer to Assyria
Egypt: Cats, Coffins, & the Afterlife
Roman Sculture: Dramas in Stone
Florence: the Sacred & the Profane
Pisa: Towers & Triptychs
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 1. from The British Museum
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 2. from Le Guimet
THE FRACTAL HEART - Introductory Pages
Contents
Chart
Characters
Glossary A - F
Glossary G - Z
Maps
Story Lines
Timelines
LINES
The Bright and Swirling Sky
Algoritmo
By the Light of Fractals 1
The Actress
Equations
Di Parma
By the Light of Fractals 2
On Lactar8
Dinner Guests from Baulis Prime
Light
The Collected Works of Humpty Dumpty
The Homework Blues
And Yet
The Eggs of Cosmic Chance
CHANGES
The Big Four 1
The Big Four 2
Life 2.0
Six and Seven
Two Priests
On the Wing 1: Beneath the Old Apple Tree
On the Wing 2: Natural Selection
On the Wing 3: The Grim Brothers
On the Wing 4: Quest
On Becoming Human
Lingua Franca 1
Lingua Franca 2
Seduction
And Carbuncle His Eyes
DISCOVERIES
Antiny the 23rd
Pietro Parlante
I, Claudia
Zadar & Qualini
The Swarm
Clark Kent
The Hidden Star
Mirror, Mirror
Between the Sheets
By the Light of Fractals 3
ATTRACTIONS
i. The Water Damsel
The Blue Bubble
On Meliflorium
Prester John
The Lady with the White Fangs
On Becoming Alien
My Own Personal Rheinmaiden
Constellations
ii. Golden Letters
J. Alfred
The Mothership
Spectra & Sentience
SCHEMES
Fra Sole
The Blue Dreamers
Black Diamond Arts
J. Alfred & the Great White
The Little Merman
Ulysses, Son of Laërtes
The Brave Little Tailor
The Tarry Dot
Poetry in the Deep
Escape from Aatari Doom
The Best Laid Plans
The Ascendancy of Baulis Prime
OUT OF COUNTRY
Maria de Tondo
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Enigma
The Academic
Across the Street
iii. At the Caffè
iv. Auberge Espagnol
Alicia
Alicia del Espejo
Spin the Bottle
The Flight of the Chronus
The English Garden
MASTERS OF CHANCE
Dreamer
Probabilities
Hammerfest
In the Contabri Bar
Venus & the Fly
A Tale of Two Worlds
Fractal Masters & Fractal Mystics
The Tyrian Corridor
At the Pangolin Gardens
The Nature of the Game
Di Firenze
The Bright Hills of Yunnan
The Chancemasters of Die
TALES
The Ancient Mariner
Claudine de Montréal
Yunnan Gold & the Madeleine
All the Tea in China
The Stories They Told Themselves
The Librarian's Tale
On the Rebound
The Waitresses of Chengdu
Antiny & the Wizard Ship of Albinon
The Völva
Infraction 101
Bar Songs
GIRLS WHO
Spirals
The Political Climate
Lestatique
The Finest Ear-Muffs Money Can Buy
At Sea
The Book of Fractals
Dance of the Seven Veils
Five & Six
The Seventh Veil
Back to Black
Lindisfarne
Two Friends
The Girl Who
White Light on Fractal
Assembly
OTHER GIRLS WHO DO TOO
Jason
Roma I
Roma II
Still Waters
Fax Americana
Farenn
Times New Roman
Medea
Madame Dupont
The Monkey King
The Elkbalam
1825
Proust in the Morning
Drive Our Ships to New Lands
Molotova the Whip
IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF DOOM
As Loki Steers Us
Transcanada: A Dream of Combustion
Talfar
Güsfreude
Virus
Twilight of the Idols
All Shook Up
The Storm Troopers Return
Alien Extraction
Di Roma
Total Collapse
The Luxorium
The Anunnaki
An Elusive Metaphor
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EARTH 2.7
Screen Time
In the Field of Flowers
Les Mouches
In the Seventh House
Dear Matthew
At First Sight
First Contact
The French Maid
In the New Beginning
En Route to the Old Cafe
Rablanar & the OC
La Vie en Orange
Au Bord de la Seine
The Soul Star
The Baulomorphs Get It On
From the Battery
NEW LINES OF CONTROL
Rule 2.7
The Crazy Diamond
The Condensation of Demon Saints
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive
The Ties That Bind
The Bind That Flies
In the Ephemera Café
The Monster in the Manor
The Golden Hill
UNDERGRAD ENGLISH
Contents
Introduction: Higher Learning
Essay Structure
Writing Tips & Conventions
Outlines
Documentation
Marking
LITERARY ANALYSIS
Literary Analysis: Six Categories
1: Space
-- Whitman
-- The Falling Girl
2: Time
-- Time in Slaughterhouse-Five
-- Timelines
-- Sci & Fi
3: Character
-- States of Mind
-- Insanity
4: Relationship
-- Moulin Rouge!
-- Romance
5: Theme
-- Paint It Black
-- Sonnet 116
6. Style
-- A-N
-- O-Z
-- The Epic
-- Irony
Six Categories In Black Robe
Black Robe Context
The Rose & Skull: Hamlet
The Rose & Skull: Introduction
HAMLET
Background to Hamlet
Passages 1
Passages 2
Passages 3
Passages 4
Passages 5
Ophelia (1109)
Response 1A
1B
Response 2A
2B
2C
Response 3A
3B
3C
Response 4A
4B
4C
The Rose & Skull: Lovers in a Dangerous Time
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME
Colonialism & the Cold War (1109)
THE QUIET AMERICAN
QA Context
QA Interview & Article
QA Sample Essay
Response 1A
1B
1C
Response 2A
2B
2C
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
YD Context
YD Sukarno's Year
YD Essay & Article
YD A Tricky Narrative
YD Hinduism
Response 3A
3B
3C
3D
3E
Comparative Essays -- Betrayal and Good Intentions
-- Sex Trade & Orientalism
ACADEMIC WRITING
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
16 Rhetorical Strategies
Definition
-- Lord of War
-- Mad Men
-- Twain & Gore
2A
2B
-- Gandhi
Carr
R 3A
3B
3C
Calvino
4A
4B
4C
-- Atwood
Music & Graphics
Music Description
Music Terms A-L
Music Terms M-Z
Boardwork
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Photos (Places & Art)
Paris, 2010 (photos)
Mexico (Photos)
Croatia & Slovenia
Ireland
Vancouver
Golf Courses in B.C.
Athens
Russian Spires
Salta & Iguazú
Taormina to Turin
Rome: About Town
From Mallorca to Madrid
Mesopotamia: from Sumer to Assyria
Egypt: Cats, Coffins, & the Afterlife
Roman Sculture: Dramas in Stone
Florence: the Sacred & the Profane
Pisa: Towers & Triptychs
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 1. from The British Museum
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 2. from Le Guimet
Athens 2018
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