Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Prologue A Wanderer on the Face of the Earth

1 The Happiest Thought of My Life

2 Hats Off to the Fellows! From a Swiss Jew

3 A Stinking Flower in a German Buttonhole

4 God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe

5 A Barbarian among the Holy Brotherhood in Tails

6 The Reality of Nature and the Nature of Reality

7 On the Run

8 I Vill a Little T’ink

Epilogue An Old Gypsy in a Quaint and Ceremonious Village

Notes and References

Bibliography

Index