CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

PART 1: A STRANGE SORT OF COMFORT

1. A Strange Sort of Comfort

2. Fog

3. Newton’s Apple

PART 2: SERIOUS PLAYFULNESS

4. Serious Playfulness

5. Try Harder!

6. New Frames

7. Terror and Truth on Flight 451

8. Pavlov’s Dogs

PART 3: THE TUNING FORK

9. The Tuning Fork

10. ’Course He Isn’t Safe . . . but He’s Good

11. Now My Eyes See

12. Who Chooses First?

13. Already . . . Not Yet

PART 4: THE TWO HANDLES

14. The Two Handles

15. Eagles and Hippos

16. Treasure and Vessel

17. All for a Letter

18. The Absurd

PART 5: THE SHELL

19. The Shell

20. If Not Certainty . . .

21. Three Tensions

22. Simplicity and Complexity

23. Coastal Waters

Epilogue: The Duke Humfrey Library

Afterword: A Plea for Contrarian Preachers (and Listeners)

Appendix: Three Orders of Paradox

Notes