CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Iconoclasm con Brio: A Reminiscence

Dislocation and Invention: A Fugue

Antecedent: The Energy of Exodus

Stargazing in the Atomic Age

Leaving Russia: The Soulful Modernism of Chagall and Rothko

Listening to Gershwin

Questions of Transport

In Praise of Bellow

Wonderful World: The Fractal Geometry of Benoit Mandelbrot

Coda

Appendix

For Further Reading