Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Prologue
  6. Part I: Getting to Know Him
  7.   1.  Going for a Row
  8.   2.  Early Childhood, a Harrowing Exile, Cruel Judaism, Homosexuality, and a Mother’s Curse
  9.   3.  Conversations with Bob Rodman and Thom Gunn in California
  10.   4.  A Visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Lunch at a Japanese Restaurant
  11.   5.  Oliver’s Cousins Abba Eban and Carmel Ross
  12.   6.  From California to New York (1962–1967)
  13.   7.  The Migraine Clinic (1966–1968)
  14.   8.  The Awakenings Drama (1968–1975)
  15.   9.  On Rounds with Oliver at Beth Abraham
  16. 10.  Auden and Luria
  17. 11.  A Visit with Oliver to London, including Conversations with Eric Korn, Jonathan Miller, and Colin Haycraft
  18. 12.  On Rounds with Oliver at the Little Sisters and Bronx State
  19. 13.  Ward 23
  20. 14.  John the Touretter
  21. Part II: How He Was (the Passing Months)
  22. 15.  The Blockage Begins to Break (1982–1983)
  23. 16.  The Leg Book Shambles Toward Publication as Oliver Hazards a Neurology of the Soul (the First Half of 1984)
  24. 17.  The Publication, at Long Last, of the Leg Book; Its Reception; Sancho Launches into His Profile and Is Stopped (the Second Half of 1984)
  25. Part III: Afterwards
  26. 18.  Dear Friends (1985–2005)
  27. 19.  A Digression on the Question of Reliability and the Nature of Romantic Science
  28. 20.  His Own Life (2005–2015)
  29. Postscript
  30. Notes
  31. Acknowledgments
  32. Index
  33. Illustration Credits
  34. Also by Lawrence Weschler
  35. A Note About the Author
  36. Copyright

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