Contents

Foreword

1. Stars, the Sea

2. El Alamein

3. Mythical Figures

4. Flying

5. Fabius Maximus and Siegel Hans

6. Along the Border

7. Ella and Rudolf

8. Elisabeth and Dietrich

9. Munich

10. Second Meeting with God

11. Caves

12. The Valley of the Ten Thousand Windmills

13. Congo

14. Dr. Fu Manchu

15. John Okello

16. Peru

17. Privilegium Maius, Pittsburgh

18. NASA, Mexico

19. Pura Vida

20. Dance on the Wire

21. Menhirs and the Vanishing Area Paradox

22. The Ballad of the Little Soldier

23. Chatwin’s Rucksack

24. Arlscharte

25. Wives, Children

26. Waiting for the Barbarians

27. Unrealized Projects

28. The Truth of the Ocean

29. Hypnosis

30. Villains

31. The Transformation of the World into Music

32. On Reading Minds

33. Slow Reader, Long Sleeper

34. Friends

35. My Old Mother

36. The End of Images

Acknowledgments

Films

Opera Productions