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Part One: GOAS
1: THE TAR ROAD
2: POHAMBA
3: THE VOLUNTEER
4: CLASSROOM
5: THE C-32
6: WALLS
7: MORAL TALE
8: A SPOT NORTHWEST OF OTJIMBINGWE
9: ANTOINETTE
10: A DROWNED BOY
11: GOAS
12: STORY OF A TEACHER’S WIFE
13: UP ON THE HILL BY THE CROSS
14: CLASSROOM
15: GOAS MORNING
16: DIKELEDI
17: TYPING
18: RAIN
19: OBADIAH
20: SECOND COMING
21: BROTHERS
22: TO RETURN
23: STUDY HOUR
24: AUNTIE
25: UP ON THE HILL BY THE CROSS
26: GOAS LOVE
27: MID-MORNING BREAK
28: SIESTA
29: SHOE WAR
30: MOSES
31: BY THE PISS TREE
32: OBADIAH (3 A.M.)
33: IN THE NORTH
34: DROUGHT STORIES
35: MAVALA
36: COFFEE FIRE
37: ANTOINETTE
38: OBADIAH (SHAVING)
39: ANTOINETTE
40: GOAS
41: THEOFILUS
Part Two: FARTHER INTO THE VELD
42: NIGHT
43: POHAMBA
44: TOMO
45: LATE DUSK
46: WALLS
47: VILHO
48: THE SEVASTOPOL WALTZ
49: HYGIENE PATROL
50: NOTES ON A MOSTLY ABSENT PRIEST
51: ENGLISH NIGHT
52: HUNS AND KHAKIS
53: KARIBIB
54: BUTCHER SCHMIDSDORF
55: SISTER ZOë
56: THEOFILUS
57: ZAMBEZI NIGHTS
58: VILHO
59: GOAS
60: MORE GOAS LOVE
61: SIESTA
62: OBADIAH
63: MORNING MEETING
64: ANTOINETTE
65: GRAVES
66: APOSTLE JOHN
67: ANNUAL LIBRARY LECTURE (EXCERPTED)
68: GRAVES
69: SPIES
70: PRINSLOO
71: GOAS
72: GRAVES
73: KRIEGER
74: GRAVES
75: INTOXICATIONISTS IN A DATSUN
76: ANTOINETTE
77: MAGNUS AXAHOES
78: POHAMBA
79: A VISIT FROM COMRADE GENERAL KANGULOHI
80: GRAVES
81: OBADIAH (HATS)
82: AUNTIE
83: GRAVES
84: THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
85: POHAMBA
86: A PIANO FOR GOAS
87: GRAVES
88: MAJESTY OF THE LAW
89: POHAMBA
90: THE ILLEGALS
91: SNAKE PARK
92: WALLS
93: GRAVES
94: GRAVES
95: GRAVES
96: DR. SAVIMBI
97: ANTOINETTE AND OBADIAH
98: GOAS
99: VILHO
100: GOAS CHRISTMAS
Part Three: AN ORDINARY DROUGHT
101: GRAVES
102: WALLS
103: DROUGHT STORIES
104: CLASSROOM
105: GRAVES
106: GRAVES
107: ABRAM
108: GRAVES
109: POHAMBA
110: GRAVES
111: GRAVES
112: GRAVES
113: OBADIAH (3 A.M.)
114: ANTOINETTE
115: DROUGHT STORIES
116: GRAVES
117: DROUGHT STORIES
118: WHELPS
119: GRAVES
120: POHAMBA
121: COMRADE YANAYEV
122: DROUGHT STORIES
123: GRAVES
124: THE PHARAOH’S DREAM
125: GOAS THEATER
126: UP ON THE HILL BY THE CROSS
127: MORNING MEETING
128: GOAS THEATER
129: NOTES FROM THE LAST AND FIRST REHEARSAL
130: GRAVES
131: GRAVES
132: WUNDERBUSCH
133: FARM LINE
134: GOAS MORNING
135: COFFEE FIRE
136: MORNING MEETING
137: WALLS
138: TOMO
139: WALLS
140: ACROSS THE ROAD
141: SIESTA
142: OBADIAH (3 A.M.)
143: ANTOINETTE
144: PRINSLOO’S WIFE
145: MAGNUS AXAHOES
146: DROUGHT STORIES
147: SINGLES QUARTERS
148: THE B-1 SOUTH
Part Four: ANTOINETTE
149: GOAS
150: CINCINNATI PUBLIC
151: MAVALA
152: ON THE MOLE AT SWAKOPMUND
153: GRAVES
154: HOSTEL (NIGHT)
NOTES
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