Foreword
Preface
Prologue: In Love with Defeat
1 - Ancient Civilization Revisited
2 - Growing Up: Cracks in the Cocoon
3 - A Civilization Dies—Unnoticed
4 - Model Southern Governors
5 - Camelot Interrupted
6 - Meanwhile, Back Home . . .
7 - Coming Home as Strangers
8 - Stranger’s Return to a Familiar Place
9 - Escape from the South
10 - A New Civilization Aborning
11 - The Opening Act
12 - Smoke
13 - Rabbit Sausage
14 - A Fateful Meeting
15 - The Day Sisyphus Lost His Job
16 - A Matter of Soul
17 - Please Go Away
Afterword
Appendix
Photographs
Index
About the Author
