Prologue: France, December 1977
The Language of Engine Driving
Part One: Melbourne, Tuesday, 16 July 1946
1. The Post-War World
2. The Photographer and the Journalist
3. The Journalist on the Street
4. The Painter Reads the Journalist
5. Skinner Observes the Light from Miss Carroll’s Tent
6. Inside Miss Carroll’s Tent
7. The Absent Father
8. The Dancing Man
9. Rita at Home
10. Webster Imagines His World
11. Vic Reads the Evening Newspaper
12. The Day Ends
Part Two: Wednesday, 17 July 1946
13. Skinner’s Gift
14. Webster’s Ground
15. George Is Adrift
16. The Indifference of Munching Cows
17. The Contessa Reflects
18. En Plein Air
19. Affection
20. Trust (I)
21. The Concept of Too Much
22. Trust (II)
23. History Pays a Call
24. A Painting Appears
25. An Artist Without an Art
26. A Simple Heart
27. The Spirit of Progress
Part Three: Thursday, 18 July 1946
28. Horizon
29. Vic Discovers the Golf Course
30. Sam on the Docks
31. George’s Moment
32. The Kitchen Sink
33. Webster and Skinner Observe Each Other
34. A Victorian Lady
35. The Subject Is Unobserved
Part Four: January 1947
36. Elsewhere
37. The Dutiful Servant
38. A Goodbye of Sorts
39. Heaven and Earth
40. Singapore
Part Five: 1949
41. The Lost Domain
42. Care and Dread
43. The Centre of Things
44. Webster at Home
45. The Wooden Frame of Fate
Part Six: November 1977
46. Woman and Tent
47. The Survival of the Fittest Memories
48. Rita Calls on History
49. Old Streets
Epilogue: France, December 1977