CONTENTS

Cover

About the Author

Dedication

Title Page

I.  POST-HISTORIES

1.  Fatal Monologue

2.  The Sleep of the Calligrapher

3.  Déesses entretenues

4.  Enamel Scar

5.  On the Fundamentals of the Coca-Cola Bottle

6.  The Perpetual War

II.  EXEGESIS

7.  The Forty-nine Steps

8.  The Superior Man and the Absolute Cocotte

9.  The Ordeal of Impossible Words

10.  A Report on Readers of Schreber

11.  Accompaniment to the Reading of Stirner

12.  Prelude to the Twentieth Century

III.  PUBLIC SECRETS

13.  Hiding Places

14.  On Public Opinion

15.  A Chinese Wall

16.  The Practice of Profane Illumination

17.  Brecht the Censor

18.  The Ancient Egyptian Character of Art

19.  The Siren Adorno

20.  An Apocryphal Grave

IV.  MYTHOS

21.  The Terror of Fables

Notes

Note on Texts

Acknowledgments

Copyright