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Contents Acknowledgments ix I. Cosmogony 3 Lares and Penates 4 Bower Bird 6 Lady on a Unicycle 8 Same Lady, Different Unicycle 9 The Truth About Effects 10 Genealogy 11 Girl Under Bug Zapper 14 Portrait of the Artist with Toothpick Bridge 15 Itinerant 16 Mnemosyne 17 Fisher King 19 Bildungsroman 21 II. The School by the Zoo 27 I. Big Sandstone Building in Memory of 27 II. Ecce Signum! 28 III. Involution 29 IV. Swan Song 30 V. Dramatis Personae 31 VI. Interiors 32 VII. Offices 33 VIII. “The monkeys make sorrowful noises overhead” 34 IX. “I’ve been to the zoo. I said, I’ve been to the zoo” 35 X. Perspectives 36 XI. Shaping Behaviors 37 XII. Women’s Studies 38 XIII. Ichnology 39 XIV. Ichthyology 40 XV. Reciprocity 41 XVI. Mutatis Mutandis 42 III. Tactics: A Short Lesson 45 Portrait of the Artist with Paint-by-Numbers 47 Svengali Deck 48 Plot Twists 50 Flea Circus 52 Felix Culpa 53 Epithalamium 54 Storm and Stress 56 Aftermath 57 Dead Matter 59 Assisted Living 60 Miniatures 62 The Truth About Distance 64 A Correlated History of Synchronicity 66 ...

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