| At the Palace of Fine Arts | p. 3 |
| Monumental Is More than a Question of Scale | p. 4 |
| Meaner than a Junkyard Dog, or, Turner's Evil Twin | p. 6 |
| Man of the Century | p. 7 |
| Across the River and into the Sleaze | p. 8 |
| The Glorified Go One by One to Glory | p. 10 |
| The Pied Piper | p. 11 |
| The Power of Abstraction | p. 12 |
| Making Orville's Day | p. 14 |
| High Fashion | p. 16 |
| Never Use a Stock Ticker without a Geiger Counter | p. 18 |
| The Blood of the Widow Oosthuizen | p. 19 |
| Soldiers of Orange | p. 20 |
| Outward Bound | p. 24 |
| Rondo on the Rio Negro | p. 26 |
| Double Passage on the Holland-Amerika | p. 28 |
| Tulips from Alcibiades | p. 29 |
| Kurt Weill in Curacao | p. 30 |
| Two Sides of the Mackie Messer Mouth | p. 31 |
| The Mount of the Holy Cross | p. 32 |
| Horizons and Myopia | p. 35 |
| Number One Nob Hill | p. 37 |
| Un bel di vedremo | p. 38 |
| Ten on the Richter | p. 39 |
| Philip the Fair on Folsom Street | p. 41 |
| A Word from Isobel | p. 42 |
| Astrology in the Sahara | p. 43 |
| Oued Draa | p. 44 |
| Regression Analysis | p. 45 |
| Walking on Water | p. 46 |
| Sitting behind Ben-Hur | p. 47 |
| Joshua Ben-Panthera | p. 48 |
| Christ of the Andes | p. 49 |
| Christ of the Ozarks | p. 50 |
| The Canals of Pera | p. 51 |
| Architecture 101 | p. 52 |
| Iconography | p. 54 |
| The Custom of the Country | p. 56 |
| Vegetarian Mary and the Venus Flytrap | p. 58 |
| James Jones, Infantry | p. 59 |
| Repenting the Needle, Somewhat | p. 60 |
| Deep Depression in Key West | p. 61 |
| Days of Labor | p. 62 |
| Dante by the Bay | p. 64 |
| Red Rust in the Sunset | p. 65 |
| Haitian Endymion | p. 69 |
| Aubade | p. 70 |
| Teatro Amazonas | p. 71 |
| A Message from Mother Goddam | p. 73 |
| La Petite Tonkinoise | p. 74 |
| Calvin in the Casino | p. 75 |
| Woman | p. 76 |
| Watchboy, What of the Night? | p. 77 |
| Servant Problem | p. 78 |
| A Somewhat Static Barcarolle | p. 79 |
| Junker-Lied | p. 80 |
| Love in Cincinnati | p. 81 |
| Period Piece | p. 82 |
| Grace at the Atlanta Fox | p. 83 |
| Of Heaven as Production Number | p. 85 |
| A Song in Subtitles | p. 87 |
| A Song to Be Syndicated | p. 88 |
| Domestic Symphony | p. 89 |
| A Clock with a Mirror Face | p. 90 |
| Ways of Feeling | p. 91 |
| His Supreme Intelligence, the Emperor of the Universe | p. 95 |
| Assorted Beasts | p. 96 |
| A City in the Sky | p. 97 |
| Tournament | p. 98 |
| In the Palace of Blue Magic | p. 99 |
| The View from the Water World | p. 100 |
| The Merciless Returns | p. 101 |
| What the Sirens Sang | p. 105 |
| The Procurator Is Aware That Palms Sweat | p. 106 |
| A Crown for the Kingfish | p. 107 |
| Manchuria 1931 | p. 108 |
| The Last of Vichy | p. 109 |
| Pacelli and the Ethiop | p. 110 |
| The Entrance of Winifred into Valhalla | p. 111 |
| Blood and Flatiron | p. 112 |
| Carpenters | p. 113 |
| Purdah in Pretoria | p. 114 |
| Confederates in Brazil | p. 115 |
| DeLesseps Go Home | p. 116 |
| Gauchesco | p. 118 |
| The Shropshire Lad in Limehouse | p. 119 |
| In Sydney by the Bridge | p. 121 |
| By the Waters of Lexington Avenue | p. 122 |
| L'aigle a deux jambes | p. 124 |
| Off the Freeway | p. 125 |
| The Dispositions of Retirement Pay | p. 126 |
| Making Blackberry Jelly | p. 127 |
| Costuming the Pageant | p. 128 |
| Visiting the Cemetery | p. 129 |
| Cartography Is an Inexact Science | p. 130 |
| Allegory with Lay Figures | p. 133 |
| The Love Life of Captain Hook | p. 134 |
| Yellow for Peril, Black for Beautiful | p. 136 |
| On the Freeway | p. 137 |
| The Corpses at Zinderneuf | p. 138 |
| Phantoms | p. 139 |
| The New Suit | p. 143 |
| Military Funeral | p. 144 |
| Alternative Autobiographies: He retires after 34 years in the Canal Zone | p. 147 |
| Alternative Autobiographies: He is the last American in Johannesburg | p. 148 |
| Nellie Melba | p. 151 |
| Viscount Greystoke | p. 152 |
| Alfred Douglas | p. 153 |
| J. Bruce Ismay | p. 154 |
| Mrs. Leland Stanford | p. 155 |
| Do Not Judge by Appearances. Or Do | p. 159 |
| Why Fortune Is the Empress of the World | p. 160 |
| Flying Friendly Skies | p. 161 |
| A Dance Part Way around the Veau d'Or, or, Rich within the Dreams of Avarice | p. 162 |
| The Garden and the Gods | p. 164 |
| Pausing in the Climb | p. 165 |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Jekyll | p. 166 |
| The New Dolores Leather Bar | p. 167 |
| Appalachia in Cincinnati | p. 168 |
| Hunting | p. 170 |
| U-24 Anchors off New Orleans, 1938 | p. 171 |
| Phaethon | p. 172 |
| Berolina Demodee | p. 174 |
| The Goblin Market, or, The Sorrows of Satan | p. 176 |
| Imputations | p. 177 |
| Page from a Bar Guide | p. 178 |
| The Aswan Rowing Club | p. 179 |
| Eniwetok Mon Amour | p. 180 |
| Scheherazade in South Dakota | p. 181 |
| Via Spaceship through Saskatchewan | p. 182 |
| At the Mercy of the Queen-Empress | p. 183 |
| Ghosts | p. 185 |
| The Miller | p. 186 |
| A Distant View of the Chinese Wall | p. 187 |
| News for Loch Ness | p. 188 |
| The Chinaberry Tree | p. 189 |
| Seeking a Level | p. 190 |
| Hurricane Lamp | p. 191 |
| Our Lady's Juggler | p. 192 |
| In the Kingdom of Jerusalem | p. 193 |
| Adding Rattles | p. 194 |
| So Here It Is at Last | p. 195 |
| The Alfano Ending | p. 196 |
| Promises, Promises | p. 197 |
| Persistence of Memory | p. 201 |
| Hedy Lamarr and a Chocolate Bar | p. 202 |
| Prometheus in Polynesia | p. 203 |
| When in Doubt, Remain in Doubt | p. 204 |
| Acid Rain on Sherwood Forest | p. 205 |
| Bank Notes | p. 206 |
| Correction and Amplification | p. 208 |
| Inducted | p. 210 |
| Berlin-to-Baghdad | p. 212 |
| Immurings | p. 213 |
| Power Failure | p. 214 |
| Between the Chains | p. 216 |
| R.U.R. or Are You Aren't? | p. 217 |
| Apocalypse as Genre | p. 218 |
| Some People Have No Small Talk | p. 220 |
| Campion in Uniform | p. 221 |
| For the Scrapbook of Mrs. Charles Black | p. 222 |
| Mainstreaming | p. 224 |
| Fin de Siecle | p. 228 |
| Publicans and Sinners | p. 230 |
| Franchises | p. 231 |
| Texarkana | p. 232 |
| Knowledge Is Power, but Only If You Misuse It | p. 233 |
| Retouching Walker Evans | p. 234 |
| Other Directed | p. 236 |
| Method | p. 237 |
| One of the Boys, or, Nothing Sad about My Captains | p. 238 |
| Links | p. 239 |
| Open Wounds | p. 240 |
| Laying It on the Line | p. 241 |
| Epilogue: He Whom Ye Seek | p. 245 |
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