The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season

Contents

1 THE RoPEmAkER’S DAugHTER 9 1.1 The Speech of the Old Man 1.2 Smoke 1.3 Andrea and Thomas 1.4 Contagion 1.5 Picture-Books of the Late Capitalists 1.6 Rope 2 ABluTIon In HElICAl STRuCTuRE 53 2.1 Silence 2.2 The Green Door 2.3 Shapes of the Bathhouse 2.4 The Crèche 2.5 The Speech of the Young Woman 2.6 Residues 3 THE gREEn DooR 83 3.1 Mercury 3.2 The Speech of the Young Woman 3.3 The Snow Pageant Contents 3.4 The Love Story of the Young Woman and the Small Doctor 3.5 The Means of Reproduction 3.6 The Heart 4 JoHn’S DAy 137 4.1 The Lemon Peel Woman 4.2 A John’s Day Drama 4.3 The Lemon Peel Woman 4.4 The Golden Mountain 4.5 Fog & Mist 4.6 Stories for Children 5 THE Snow PAgEAnT 203 5.1 Stories for Children 5.2 Mercury 5.3 The Operable Window 5.4 Mercury 5.5 The Atrium 5.6 Mercury 6 mERCuRy 265 6.1 Noctilucence 6.2 Simplicity 6.3 Dermatoglyphics 6.4 Epistle of Three Children to the Wearers of Sandals 6.5 Angelophyta 6.6 The Cairn of the Androgyne Long, long ago there lived an old queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, thought of nothing but how to lure people to their doom. “The Six Servants” Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm ...