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Contents

  Title Page

  Note to Reader

  Dedication

I. Bit Parts

1  Northwest Passage

2  In Shakespeare

3  Special Victims Unit

4  Subject, Verb, Object

5  Emergency Measures

6  Metallurgy for Dummies

7  Head-On

8  Iron Age

9  Classic Bar Scenes I. Apollo at Happy Hour II. Ovidian Deposition III. Pygmalion among the Young IV. Twilight of a God V. Orpheus at Last Call VI. Apollo in Age

10  Zeus: A Press Conference

11  State-Sponsored

12  Echo

13  Bit Parts

14  The God Who

II. Vectors 3.0: Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

III. By the Numbers

1  By the Numbers

2  Birds in Rain

3  Are We Alone? or Physics You Can Do at Home

4  Prokaryotes

5  The Stars in Order Of

6  Origin of Language

7  Songs for Senility

8  Room Temperature

IV. Small Hours

1  Shore Town, Winter

2  Tableau

3  Postmortem Georgic

4  Night Lights (1977– ) Blackout The Rich Man Sotto Voce To a Tea Slice of Life Who Has Seen the Wind Red, Green, Blue Star Reading Light

5  Roads Not Taken

6  Roads Taken

7  End of Summer

  Notes

  About the Author

  Acknowledgments

  Copyright

  Special Thanks