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Cover
ALSO BY JOHN KINSELLA
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
PURGATORIO: UP CLOSE
Preface to Purgatorio
Dream Canto: Egotistical Sublime
Canto of the Beach
Canto of the Moths
Dream Canto: Doodenanning Golf Course
Dream Canto: Cross on the Hill
Dream Canto: Torch Bearing
Canto of the Inner Lining (Excommunicates)
Ante Canto 1
Ante Canto 2
Canto of Gustave Doré’s Angel
Canto of the Uncanny
Canto of Ghosts (The Indolent)
Ante Canto 3.1
Ante Canto 4
Dream Canto: Wreck (Negligent / late repenters / died by violence)
Canto of the Health Minister’s—Mr Abbott’s—New Paternalism
Canto of the Muscular Treasurer of Australia—Mr Costello
Canto of Invisible Terraces: Paradox and the Arts of War
Dream Canto—Recurring: Doodenanning Golf Course
Canto of the Galilean Moons of Jupiter
Canto of Lucid Light
Canto of the Doubled Terraces: Cooee! (The Prideful)
Canto of Stratus of Acacia Leaves
Canto of Mud and Saliva
Canto of the Workshop
Canto of the Theatre of Cruelty
Canto of the Solar Cell (Disorientation)
Canto of the Floodway: more irregularities of road travel on the verge of night
Canto of Rhizomic Infestations
Canto of the Invisible Terraces: Red Sun and Legless Lizard
Canto of the Mound of Earth (Pride—the burden of groundless suspicion)
Canto of Slipping at Night (9)
Canto of Jam Tree Bark (Pride)
Canto of Circumscription
Dream Canto: Climbing the Outcrop, the Calenture, Bare Feet…
Canto of the Invisible Terraces: Between Pride and Envy…
Canto of the Invisible Layers: Envy
Canto of the Doubled Terraces (14)
Canto of the Invisible Terraces: Soothing
Canto—Evening
Canto (cont A.)
Canto of the Litmus Test
Canto of the Invisible Terraces: Eucalypts and Apocalypses
Canto of the Invisible Layers: post-smoke (or Canto 16 in realtime)
Canto of the Struck
Canto of the Ventriloquising Apostrophe
Canto Apostrophes
Canto Expurgated
Canto of the Doubled Terraces: The Wrathful
Canto of the Retrieval of Manhood (18)
Canto of Avarice
Canto of the Dry Bite of Dust (20)
Canto of the Earthquake House: a flashback
Canto Sub-strata…first rains (20)
Canto (cont sub B.)
Canto of Gluttony (23)
Canto Progressive
Canto of Listening to Birds in the Tree
Canto—interlude (forbidden tree)
Canto Transitional (Gluttonous to Lustful)
Canto of the Doubled Terraces (25)
Canto of Dissenting Angles
Canto Cracking Open
Canto of the Bigoted (25)
Canto of Different Angles (25/26)
Canto La Traviata
Canto of Cradle to the Grave (26: reignited, the lustful)
Canto Interpolation: And so, entering the property…
Canto Interpolation: Closed off on their properties…
Canto: polystyrene soliloquy
Canto of Naming (28)
Canto of the Invisible Terraces: Fog
The Most Invisible Layer Canto
Canto in Semi-silence
Canto of All Birds Celestial
Canto of the Others
Canto of Self-rebuke
Canto of the Nucleotides
Canto of Rebuilding (Entry to Earthly Paradise)
Canto of the Invisible Terraces: faux slice of empyrean?
Canto of The Maximum Minimum Thermometer: one of the few items left to John by his father
Canto of the Doubled Terraces (Beta Beatrice)
Canto of Tripping Off the Edge of Earthly Paradise
Canto of Tangential Movement
Canto of the Soil
Canto Mistletoe (31)
Canto of the Borders
Final Canto of the Doubled Terraces (33)
Acknowledgments
PARADISO: RUPTURE
Preface to Paradiso
Overture—Liminal Paradiso
Canto of Irregular Moon (First Heaven)
Canto of Renovating Vows (Moon)
Sub-Paradiso: Mushrooms
Canto of the Material (Third Heaven: Venus)
Canto of the Brighter Lights (Fourth Heaven: The Sun)
Canto of the Movers and Shakers (13: lines 97–101)
Canto of Mistaken Identity
Rapture of the Cluster (Doré’s Cross)
Canto of Enquiring into the South Branch of the Mortlock River’s Bright Strains to Flow, beside Duck Pool Road (14)
Canto of the Motes (14 continued)
Canto of my Great Great Grandfather—Edward Pat Kinsella (15: Sphere of Mars)
Sub-Paradiso: Chapman Valley (16)
Canto of C(r)ash and Burn (17)
Sub-Paradiso: The Tree and a Vow (18)
Sub-Paradiso: Eagle Shapes (18)
Canto of Divine Justice (19: Jupiter)
Rapture: Pinnacles (Jupiter)
Canto of Arcadia (21: Saturn)
Sub-Paradiso: Permit
Sub-Paradiso: Reflection (off windows in the main street of York)
Canto of the Dragons (22)
Canto of the Consensus (22: Ascent from Saturn to the Fixed Stars)
Sub-Paradiso: Roving Mob of Sheep
Canto of Polyhymnia (23: Fixed Stars)
Canto of Lucid Light and the Scoville Scale (Christ’s Triumph: 23: Fixed Stars)
Sub-Paradiso: Stubble Quail Trio
Rupture (Canto of inverted rapture)
Canto of Residency (unmoving stars)
Canto of Wings
Rapture: Tinnitus
Canto of the Examination (24: Eighth Sphere)
Canto of the Examination of Faith: RLEM (24)
Canto of the Examination of Hope: a movie (25)
Canto of the (Self-)Examination of Love (26)
Canto of Analogies for Brightness (25/27)
Sub-Paradiso: Earthquake Swarm
Canto of the Changes, Taarblin Lake (27)
Rapture of the Living Lake
Canto of the Covered Nest, Magpies Awaiting First Light (Fixed Stars)
Canto of Looking from Shadow into Burning Sunlight (Fixed Stars)
Canto of the Small Threshing Floors
Canto of Disguises
Rapture: Pelican
Canto of the Fixed Points (29)
Canto: Nephelometry (29)
Canto of the Lincwelder (Ninth Sphere: primum mobile)
Canto of the Dry River Empyrean (30)
Rapture: Karri Forest at Porongurups
Rapture: The Crescent of Little Beach
Rapture: South Branch, Mortlock River, Doodenanning
Rapture: Tracks and Trails and the Irrelevance of Imagery
Canto of the Bees (31: Empyrean)
Canto of the Polyhedra (32)
Canto of the Angelic Orders (33)
Rapture: Tim Discovers the Cosmos
Canto of the Leaves (Empyrean)
Acknowledgments
INFERNO: LEISURE CENTRE
Preface to Inferno
Prologue: Canto De Profundis: on Saint Michael triumphant over the Devil with the Donor Antonio Juan by Bartolomé Bermejo
Clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip: Mid-life
Canto of the Forest and Hill (1)
Counter-clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip: Agoraphobia
Canto of Orienteering
Canto of Abandoned Hope: Derrida and Dante (3)
Canto of Daylight Saving
Canto of the Parboiled: No action either way, flies and wasps in pursuit (Vestibule, 3)
Canto Limbo (4)
Echoing Canto of the Black-fronted Plover
Canto Infra Red: A Day Out (4)
Canto of Malfeasances (Minos, 5)
Canto of the Circle
Echoing Canto of Leisure at the Expense of All Else (Fourth Circle, 8)
Canto of the Total Souls from the Ships List
Canto of Wrath and Schadenfreude (Fifth Circle, 8)
Canto of Fallen Angels Barring the Way into the City of Dis (Fifth Circle, 8)
Canto of the Frogs and Snakes (Furies and Medusa, 9)
Canto of the Heretics (Sixth Circle, 9/10)
Echoing Canto of the Gleaners (Sixth Circle)
Canto of the Valley of Salt Stench (10/11)
Echoing Canto of The Shape of the Iron Pit in the Hills
Canto of a Pouch for the Violent Towards Animals (Seventh Circle, sub subcircle, 11/12)
Re-echoing Canto of the Snake Being Run Over
Canto of Boiling Blood (Seventh Circle, first subcircle, 12)
Canto of the Patriots (12)
Canto of Clearing Away the Barbed Wire (Seventh Circle, subcircle 2, 13)
Canto of the Speech of the Broken Twigs (Seventh Circle, subcircle 2, 13)
Canto of Road Rage
Canto of the Bleeding River (a rapid crossing sans my guide who was waiting patiently elsewhere)
Canto of William Burroughs out on the Salt (Seventh Circle, subcircle 3, 15)
Canto of Scorpions and Rock Dragons: Geryon’s Gambit (16/17)
Canto of the Counteracting Möbius Strip
Canto of the GPS (17—assorted Geryons)
Canto of Weirdoes on the Salt (Eighth Circle, first bolgia, 18)
Canto of Shit (Eighth Circle, second bolgia, 18)
Canto of Indulgences (Eighth Circle, third bolgia, 19)
Canto of the Soothsayers: as they blithely played The Kinks’ ‘Lola’ on the Juke Box (Eighth Circle, fourth bolgia, 20)
Canto of the Dealer (Eighth Circle, fifth bolgia, 21)
Canto of the Gaff (Eighth Circle, fifth bolgia, 22)
Canto of Alchemy: from Lead to Gold (Eighth Circle, sixth bolgia, 23)
Canto of Shootings (Eighth Circle, sixth bolgia, 23)
Canto of Serpents and Theft (Eighth Circle, seventh bolgia, 24/25)
Canto of the Morphology of Blue-Tongue Goannas and Figs (25)
Echoing Canto of the Fox (26)
Echoing Canto of the Fox and Small Boy (26)
Canto of the Trojan Horse (Eighth Circle, eighth bolgia, 26)
Canto of the Möbius Strip: Paranoia (Eighth Circle, eighth bolgia, 27)
Canto of a Pine Tree (Eighth circle, ninth bolgia, 28)
Canto of an Eye for an Eye (Eighth Circle, ninth bolgia, 28)
Canto of the Contrapasso of Poets Who Praise War (à la Bertran de Born)
Canto of Schismatics (28)
Canto of Conjunctions: a poetics of the body (28)
Canto of Mr and Mrs Potato Head (28/29)
Canto of Möbius Strip: Grotesqueries (30)
Canto of Jeepers Creepers
Canto of Imitation (Eighth Circle, tenth bolgia, 30)
Second Clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip (between 30 and 31)
Canto of the Heebie-Jeebies (pre 31)
Canto of the Giant (31)
Canto of Fog Conditions (Ninth Circle, Cocytus, 32)
Canto of Fog Frenzy (32)
Canto of Early Morning Fog in Cambridge (32)
Canto of Fog in Forest (32)
Canto of Unseasonable Cold (32)
Canto of Doré’s Traitors—Bocca Degli Abati (32)
Canto of the Split-Level (32)
Canto of Doré’s Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri (32)
Canto of the Reporters (32)
Canto of the Demons in the Bodies of People We Know (33)
Canto of the Judas Sheep (Satan, 34)
Clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip: the other side of the mountain
Anti-clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip: back of Walwalinj—‘the mountain’ (34)
Canto of Antipodean Emergence—12–12.15 pm from Greenhills to Doodenanning (34)
Echoing Canto of Fixedness
Canto of Fog Topography and Emergence into the Light of the World (Out of the Centre, 34)
Canto of Starlight
Acknowledgments
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