PREFACE (Required reading)


PART 1: TO THE INDUCTION CENTER

Chapter 1: Oakland California, October 16, 1967

Friday 10am

Life at the mouth of hell

Owl Light

 

Chapter 2: Redding California, Summer 1967

The Boys on the Bus

Mudfish

Horoo

 

Chapter 3: Materialization of the barricades

The masses figure it all out

Hold the Intersections

Crossing Grove Street

Election night, Alabama, a year earlier

Invention of a fact

 

Chapter 4: Wilson Pickett and the Draft Board 4

Moon Over Ghost Town

Mr. Selective Service

Old friends

Your car, your flag

Attack of the Blood-throwing Lady

 

Chapter 5: War in the Streets 101

Who are these people?

Take the lecture to the Streets

Operation Mustang Sally

The Convoy

Hell No

Nobody Goes

High Times at the IC

Who am I?


Lou Rosen (Tape 1)


PART 2: THE SEASON OF TET

 

Chapter 6: Dawn of the Monkey

Nothing Would Ever be the Same

The Lam

a philosophical note


Chapter 7: Banjo's Tet (day)

If you don't get killed, you'll be fine

 

Chapter 8: "The past is not dead...

... In fact it's not even past."

Bridges v O'Shea 1934

How the past would be had the future not arrived

 

Chapter 9: Banjo's Tet (night)

The Occupied Heart

 

Chapter 10: Tet on TV

The war will soon be over

 

Chapter 11: Blood on the screen

A boulevard empty and at war

 

Chapter 12: Bikers and Bitches

Fearful Protestant, Friendly Pediatrician

Babyass and Meathook

 

Chapter 13: Going to see The Man

Just another bail hearing


Lou Rosen (Tape 2)


   

PART 3: CROSSOVER MAN

Chapter 14: The Replacements

 

Chapter 15: A Whip of long blonde hair

 

Chapter 16: Is that the same moon?

 

Chapter 17: The town of Bad Luck

 

Chapter 18: Non-parallel lives


Chapter 19: Betta

a fable to give them grief

the salesman cometh


Chapter 20: The rome plow, or Theory and Practice

 

Chapter 21: The old dope peddler

cause the Brittanica tells me so


Chapter 22: Uncle Ho's Chicken Shak

Ho on ice

Concept man

 

Chapter 23: The Gathering

715

 

Chapter 24: Eastern Alabama. Night. 1966

sock it to me

 

Chapter 25: Shauna

Samurai movie

 

Chapter 26: Babies

The banyan problem

A bag of shrimp

 

Chapter 27: Crossing Ashbury

House of the Dead

Moral Calculus

 

Chapter 28: Crossover Point

The angle of the dangle

 

Chapter 29: Tale of two committees

No exit

No exile

 

Chapter 30: Firebase Mona

 

Chapter 31: Battle of the Claymores

 

Chapter 32: Corpses


Lou Rosen (Tape 3)


PART 4: THE GIRL

Chapter 33: The murder of Martin Luther King

James Baldwin writes to a friend

 

Chapter 34: Boston, April 4

A world without

 

Chapter 35: Boston, April 5

Three spies a'spyin

 

Chapter 36: April 5

A car fortold

 

This just in: Baghdad by the Bay

Herb Caen

 

Chapter 37: Nobody's business

If I do


Chapter 38: Judge Wisewoman

Antinomianism (1649 — )

 

Chapter 39: Jail Notes 1

Missouri

the Mercurian army

 

Chapter 40: On the other side

Tell me whyyyy

 

Chapter 41: The man I still need

to know who I am


Chapter 42: Jail Notes 2

I found her!


Chapter 43: Jennifer Warden

Dadee


Chapter 44: Jail Notes 3

Maybe a dream


Chapter 45: Cathy Cohen

Out-of-Placeness


Chapter 46: Jail Notes 4

Monday Night at the Movies


Chapter 47: Howard calls

 

Chapter 48: Dinner at home

with the Wardens

 

Chapter 49: On the verge

no call

call

 

Chapter 50: Jail Notes 5

mayday!

 

Chapter 51: “Angry Youth, Distant War”

Enter Joe Kranz

god speaks

 

Chapter 52: Jail Notes 6

screaming man

 

Chapter 53: The alleyways of treason

Dance to the music

 

Chapter 54: Jail notes 7

Queer tier

 

Chapter 55: The Girl at the door

Open up

 

Chapter 56: The Women's Group

Shauna arrives again

the women's group

 

Chapter 57: Teddy bear

Whole truth

and nothing but

 

Chapter 58: Love me for this

Gone baby gone

 

Chapter 59: Paradise Island

All the weight

 

Chapter 60: Jimmy takes his leave

 

Chapter 61: The party of the world

Everybody came

 

Chapter 62: Down in the kettle

Jimmy sees

 

Chapter 63: The night kitchen

Shauna arrives

 

Chapter 64: Fahder Flannagan

Herr von Negut

 

Chapter 65: The dead show up

Including Dwight

 

Chapter 66: Lamentations of indifference

The view from Twin Peaks

 

Chapter 67: ar bhás arís

A death repeated


Lou Rosen (Tape 4)


PART 5: ENTANGLEMENT

Chapter 68: Cosmo speaks

Notes from the absolute elsewhere


Chapter 69: Snitch jacket

The mark of Cain


Chapter 70: The Bantu wolf awaits

The Director's penis


Chapter 71: A call from underground


Chapter 72: Further notes from the absolute elsewhere

Konnectikron knows all


Chapter 73:The wolf attacks

the wrong guy

 

Chapter 74: Roadtrip to Redding

The clothed and the dead

 

Chapter 75: Critique of Hume

Is it a wallet?

Or ...


Chapter 76: Furthermore from elsewhere

A message is sent and received

 

Chapter 77: A message is sent and received

The picture and the frame

 

Chapter 78: Coming home

Not since the TV

 

Chapter 79: A mere device

Possible BPP involvement

 

Chapter 80: Yet more notes

Why is it always me?

 

Chapter 81: Whispering Jesus

let my cry come unto thee

the way that is ignorance

a fool in the works

 

Chapter 82: Every war comes home


Chapter 83: They know who we are

Who are they?


Chapter 84: The anger of the sucker at the con


Chapter 85: Old friends


Chapter 86: Pu-lit’i-kul, Oooo


Chapter 87: Concept Interpretation Agency

Not the other CIA

 

Chapter 88: Parting is such

strange

panic

 

Chapter 89: Slouching toward Bedlam


Chapter 90: The oleander connection


Chapter 91: The never printed, forever suppressed, missing issue of?


Chapter 92: The art of the impossible

 

Chapter 93: MEMO at home

epileptic cephalapods

small as a noose


Chapter 94: Into the fog

the arrow of indirection


Chapter 95: The revolutionary tourist

Tan Line tours of the Haight

a grey filing cabinet

pain: theory and practice


Chapter 96: Eureka!

notes from a very isolated booth


Chapter 97: What do they take me for?

Agent Willis strikes again

 

Chapter 98: Incident redux

your month is up

border crossing


Chapter 99: the loss of a thing you never had

a yiddische troll

a loss


Chapter 100: Plague America

mutant something something


Chapter 101: Journey to the other side

a crack in the sky


Chapter 102:Travel kit

goodbye


Chapter 103 Philosophically unfuckingacceptable

chuck it


Chapter 104: Forgiveness happens

spontaneous combustion


Chapter 105: No notes, no words

that dare not speak

in mind

out of mind


Chapter 106: Judas goats

and wombats


Chapter 107: No ya don't

Herb Caen


Chapter 108: DC writes

El Hotel Tres Palmas


Chapter 109: Cathy betrachtet

I have seen


Chapter 110: The Councils of Paris

the grand interlocutor

les pavés

lessons learned

libretto on strategy

the error every revolutionary makes

le flic

Erebus and Terror

Willy's memorial

entanglement


Chapter 111: That's it? śāntiḥ?


Lou Rosen (tape 5)


Postscript: Cosmo has the last world