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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
1. “This Isn’t My House and You Aren’t My Parents”
Discuss
Father: Elementary
At The Dinner Table: 1977
2. “This Isn’t My House and You’re Not My Children”
Story
Begin Again
“You Can’t Go Home Again And Chew Gum At The Same Time If You Won’t Listen To Me”
Initiating Event: “The Phone Rings”
My Brother Eddie
Boulder Sections
19. Boulder: “Colorado Ceramic Arts”
19(b). “Colorado Ceramic Arts”
4. Nepal / 20. “Colorado Ceramic Arts”
21. Boulder: 109b Pine Street
18. “Colorado Ceramic Arts”
Initiating Incident: “Business Opportunity”
22. 109b Pine Street
23. Boulder: 1203 13th Street
25. Colorado – California (Montara Beach)
24. Boulder: 1203 13th Street
What Happens
“You Can’t Go Home Over My Dead Body Until You Wipe That Look Off Your Face”
Upright Considerations and Doubts: “Where Children Come From”
After Dinner: 1975
Easy in Hindsight
Back in the Bedroom: A Caparisoned Elephant
Cairo Sections
11. 1987: The Pyramids of Giza / The Sahara Desert
Preface
10. Cairo International Airport / First Sight
12. The Sphinx
9. Perspective: Turkey (10 days previously)
Facts for Tourists: The Mosque of Al-Hakim
13. Cairo: The Hotel Raffles
Book Report: The Celestine Prophecy
“You Can’t Go Home Again In My Room, I Have To Sleep There”
Alien Spacecraft Section
Synopsis: Denise Aimee Cadwallader
The Whole Point
Reason to Cry
The Interpretation of Nightmares
Dahab Sections
Facts for Tourists: Dahab
14. Cairo: Loose Ends
15. Dahab: seven days, seven nights
16. Paradise: what, ever after, Eddie pictures when you say “love”
7. Perspective: Quito (12 years previously)
17. Dahab: Day Eight
How to Play Casino Blackjack for Profit
“You Can’t Go Home Again Without Me, I Will Be Desolate”
The Big Day
“What Happens To You After You Die”
Alien Spacecraft Sections (continued)
2. Santa Clara, California, 1965
Lola Sections
Irene Michaelson
26. Montara Beach, California: One Hour Earlier / Eddie Knocking on Ralph’s door, unwelcome
4.
“You Can’t Go Home Again On Your Own Two Feet”
Back in the Bedroom: A Tenacious Burro
We have Sex Finally
A Battle Between the Forces of Good and Evil
What Happens Next
“I Am Not Getting to the Point If I Can’t Take You With Me / Sentimental Drivel: As Good As It Gets?”
“You Can’t Go Home Again If You Have Never Been There Before”
August
Lola Sections (cont.)
3. Princess Margaret House, Shoreditch, 1973
Book Report: On Beyond Zebra by Dr. Seuss
Epilogue
Montara Sections
January
A Representative Day/“You Can’t Go Home Again if That’s All You Care About”
28. Montara Beach, California, April 1999
Airplane Sections
29. Changi International Airport, Singapore
27. Rotterdam, the Netherlands (three weeks earlier)
30. Singapore – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
French Sections
6. Café Casino, Avignon, France, 1973
5. Casino Avignon, France, 1973
6. Café Casino (cont.)
In Depth: Denise Cadwallader’s Luck
Emotional Digression: Before It’s Too Late “The only good thing anyone has ever done”
8. Casino Atlantic, Quito, 1978
31. Airplane Sections (cont.) / Waiting for permission to land
The Main Dread Secret
Facts for Tourists: Pullau Pangkor
“You Can’t Go Home Again Because You Are Poisonous”
The Origin of My Concept of God
Endgame
Day Four, as I begin to wake
Malaysia Sections
Context
32. Pullau Pangkor, Malaysia: at a picnic table on the beach, the sun setting and the sea reminding us, in waves
On the beach, with the sparkling waves done and undone, in black and white, Guatemala:
Segue: to the point
Beside the point: all tarnation
1. July 4, 1971: Operation Pretty Boy
An Essay on the Futility of Earthly Love
1. Momostenago, Guatemala (continued)
Why you can’t go home again
33. Pullau Pangkor, Malaysia: Deus Ex Machina
Edward John Moffat
34. Heathrow International Airport, London, England, 2000
Appendices
Appendix A: Pro Blackjack
Appendix B: What Happens To You After You Die
About the Author
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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