JAMBOREE

INDEX
Dramatis personae 5
Eleven Steps 8
Part One · The Field 9
Chapter I. The Tent Edition 10
Chapter II. The Nations 14
Chapter III. Sophia 17
Chapter IV. The Green Lamp 20
Chapter V. Happiness as a Scale Error 23
Chapter VI. The Rain That Had Already Happened 26 Interlude I. Buenos Aires Beneath Buenos Aires 30 Compiler’s Warning 33
Part Two · The Cave 36
Chapter VII. Nietzsche’s Skull 37
Chapter VIII. The Dome Without Scaffolding 40
Sky I. The Sky as a Mobile 44
Chapter IX. The Unwritten Books 46
Interlude II. Catalogue of Books No One Wrote 50
Chapter X. The Language of Birds 53
Chapter XI. 23:17 57
Chapter XII. The Symposium of the Dead 60
Chapter XIII. Socrates Underground 64
Chapter XIV. Seneca and the Chair 68
Chapter XV. Roses for Julián 71
Chapter XVI. Pythagoras in the Mud 74
Chapter XVII. Petrarch Invents Laura 78
Chapter XVIII. Palladio and the Impossible House 81
Chapter XIX. Pico, or the Freedom Not to Be Written 84 Chapter XX. The Reader Read 87
Chapter XXI. Dictionary of 1945 90
Interlude III. Logos 93
Part Three · The Exegesis 97
Chapter XXII. Anselmo 98
Chapter XXIII. It Only Seemed So 101
Chapter XXIV. Provisional Anthology of Reality 104
Chapter XXV. Three Revolutionary Architects 107
Chapter XXVI. Incompatible Evidence 111
Sky II. The Walking City 114
Chapter XXVII. To Say Something True 116
Chapter XXVIII. Shellac Records 119
Interlude IV. Anthology of Plausible Futures 122
Chapter XXIX. The I Ching and the Courtesy of the Oracle 124 Chapter XXX. A Short History of Impossible Oracles 127
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JAMBOREE · PROVISIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF REALITY
Chapter XXXI. The Envoys 130
Part Four · Degradation 133
Chapter XXXII. World 134
Chapter XXXIII. Sophia’s Error 138
Chapter XXXIV. Editions of Matter 141
Chapter XXXV. Newton’s Cenotaph 145
Chapter XXXVI. The Peacock 149
Interlude V. Circular Architectures 153
Chapter XXXVII. The Bema 165
Chapter XXXVIII. The Horn of Plenty 170
Chapter XXXIX. The U Particle and the Child of the Center 175 Chapter XL. The Crowns 180
Chapter XLI. Lucas’s Version 184
Sky III. Landscapes That Were Buildings 187
Part Five · Apotheosis 189
Chapter XLII. The Great Assembly 190
Chapter XLIII. The Water That Chooses No Shore 198
Appendices
Heresiology of the Future Gospel 206
Psalms of the Bema 209
Lexicon of the Future Gospel 211
Library of the Cave 213
Soundtrack 215
The Compiler’s Last Gloss 217
Final Dictionary of the Fifth Revelation 219
Colophon 224
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