Contents: Gospel & Universe

Table of Contents

Annotated Contents: Part One

Annotated Contents: Part Two

Preface

Situating Agnosticism

Approach, Overview, & Aim

Rivers of Change

P.O.V. 1: Family

P.O.V. 2: Literature

P.O.V. 3: Fault Lines

A Positive-Sum Philosophy

Freedom of Thought

Introduction

The Mysterious Heavens

Huxley's Definition

To Believe and Not to Believe

Types of Agnosticism

Sitting on Fences

A Literary Approach

On Nightingales and Unified Sensibility

The Unconvinced

Agnostic Geometry

Skeptics & Stoics

A Rough Chronology

Agnosticism Among the Isms

Not Quite Skeptical 1

Not Quite Skeptical 2

Nor Quite Stoic 1 - Meditations

Nor Quite Stoic 2 - The Bigger Picture

The Sum of All Space

Third Spinning Rock from the Sun

Competing Explanations

Dogma and the Stars

The Chinese Sky

The Outer Reaches 1

The Outer Reaches 2

The Unknown Arcs of a Sphere

Alas, Poor Yorick

Science & Mystery

Possible Explanations

Dante's Journey

Don't Forget the Miller

Summa Post Theologica

Bruno & Saint Francis

Secrets and Mysteries

Two Sides of the Fence

The Crystal Ball of Science

Man's Best Friend

A River Journey

Mountain Springs

A Chinese Interlude

French Currents

Riverboats & Sheep

Fry Day: the Atheist Fish

Rome 2: Odysseus, Prufrock...

Rome 3: The Eye of the Gods

Heraclitus: Athens & Allahabad

Rushdie's Sea of Stories

Three Little Words

Critical Distance

Locke's Double Key

Locked Into This World

Montaigne's Balance

Pyrrho's Equilibrium & Zhuangzi's Pivot

Hegel's Dialectic

Whitman's Cosmos

Byron: Carrying Sail

Byron: Trickster of Change

Keats' Negative Capability

The English Garden of Sense

Tennyson's Ulysses

The Problem With Explanations

Señor Locke

The Gringo Takes Stock

Under the Umbrellas

Beneath the Aonian Mount 1

Train of Memory

Howling at the Moon

Beneath the Aonian Mount 2

In the Valley of Darién

The Tiny Pyramids of Ra

Señor Locke and the Jaguar

Aura 3: Inside Van Gogh's Ear

Aura 4: In the Shadow of Macbeth

The Floating World

At The Wild & Fog

A Misty Maze, But Not Without A Plan

Pope: A Mighty Maze

What the Dickens

Love Amid the Fog

God Among the Scientists

Hutton's Hammer

Jardine's Monkeys

A Passage to Forster

From London to the Marabar Caves

Almost Existential

Poor, Bare, Forked

Between the Flippers

Doctors of Revolt

In the Shadow of Borges

Hitler's Perfect World

Ontology Precedes Epistemology

The Permeable Self

Cloud Illusions

The Mermaid

The Epic Heroine

The Wine-Dark Sea

The Queen of Love

Beyond Alienation

Myth & Mysticism

Many Tribes

Six Versions of Infinity

The Creation of Outcasts

A Specific Version of Infinity

Nothing in Damascus

Myth and Religion

Anti-Definitions

All Those Things the Wise Men Say

The Currents of Sumer

Introduction & Overview

Currents of History

The Exegete & the Philologist

Zero & Positive Sums

The Bounty of Sumer & Akkad

Again, Minus 1 Plus 1

Rewind & Fast-Forward

Grace: The Most Positive Sum

Myths of Sin & Divinity

The Archaeology of Mystery

Post & Other Scripts

The Return of Enlil

Systems

Systems of Dread & Hope

Currents of Christianity

Selective Grace

Exclusive Geographies

Christianity 2.0

Systems of Operation

The Scoundrels of Theology

Versions of Deity

Churches of Thought

Unlimited Agnosticism

"Open Your Heart" 1

"Open Your Heart" 2

"Open Your Heart" 3

Saint Francis

The Baby and the Bathwater

Believe It or Else

Pascal's Wager 1: Pensées

Pascal 2: It Isn't Necessary to Wager

Pascal 3: God & Infinity

Pascal 4: Zhuangzi in Tipasa

Pascal 5: The Cosmic Casino

From Kerry to Crete

Canticle to the Stars

The Apple Merchant of Babylon

The Genealogy of Mortals

Moses & the Apple Merchants of Babylon

Final Judgments

Aziz & the Crimson Cup

The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 1

The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 2

In the Beginning

Adam and the Snake

The Journey West

The Priest's Dilemma

Pinpoints of Light

The Golden Triangle

Priest & Pastor

Believing in the Mystery

The God That Has No Name

A Global Picture

Rushdie: The Fiction of Doubt

The Rise of the Simurg

All the Letters Mixed Up

When Religions Collide

When Religions Come Together

Eruptions of the Sacred

The Return of the Simurg

Iconoclasts: Flapping Eagle

The Rock: Amina Sinai

The Poet & the Three Weird Sisters

The Flight of Angels: Gabriel and Allelujah

Ars Moriendi

Dying by the Law

Post Scriptum, Post Mortem, Agnosticum

Like Flies to Wanton Boys

The Deadly Force of Chance

Living by the Numbers

Dying by the Numbers

The Readiness is All

Beyond Whose Bourne

On the Pageant Faded

Short Fiction

Short Fiction (Contents)

Roman Holiday 1: Campo de' Fiori

Let Me Be Thy Choir

The Wine-Dark Sea 1: Seduction

- 2: Eat, Play, Leave

The Dance of the Seven Veils

Le Bijou 1: The Star of Montmartre

- 2: The Scholar

- 3: The Third Act

The Apple Merchant of Babylon 1: Genesis

- 2 : Begin at the Beginning

- 3: The Confused Astronomers of Babylon

- 4: Again, In the Beginning

The Blue-Eyed Sicilian 1: I, Claudia

- 2: Il Giardino Inglese

- 3: Second Base

Poetry

Poetry (Contents)

That Undiscovered Country

Petits Poèmes en Prose

Working the Traps

Politics

Politics: Contents

Nothing in Damascus

Transparently Multicultural

An English Department on Fallar Discordia

The Algorithmics

The Ghost of Crises Past

Three Girls Who

The Tao of Putin

Our Lady of the Harbour

Jovanka on the Bridge

War: Songs & Poems

The Reign of Error: 1. Prophecy

About Me

About Me (Contents)

1980s Asia

Intro, Map, & Contents

Yangshao & Dali

Kunming to Kashgar

The Philippines

Photos

Photos (Places & Art)

Paris, 2010 (photos)

Mexico (Photos)

Croatia & Slovenia

Golf Courses in B.C.

Salta & Iguazú

Taormina to Turin

Rome: About Town

From Mallorca to Madrid

Mesopotamia: from Sumer to Assyria

Egypt: Cats, Coffins, & the Afterlife

Roman Sculture: Dramas in Stone

Florence: the Sacred & the Profane

Pisa: Towers & Triptychs

Hindu & Buddhist Art - 1. from The British Museum

Hindu & Buddhist Art - 2. from Le Guimet

THE FRACTAL HEART - Introductory Pages

Earth: 2016 to Present

LINES

By the Light of Fractals 1

By the Light of Fractals 2

Dinner Guests from Baulis Prime

The Collected Works of Humpty Dumpty

The Homework Blues

The Eggs of Cosmic Chance

CHANGES

On the Wing 1: Beneath the Old Apple Tree

On the Wing 2: Natural Selection

On the Wing 3: The Grim Brothers

On the Wing 4: Quest

On Becoming Human

Lingua Franca 1

Lingua Franca 2

And Carbuncle His Eyes

DISCOVERIES

Antiny the 23rd

Pietro Parlante

Zadar & Qualini

The Hidden Star

Between the Sheets

By the Light of Fractals 3

ATTRACTIONS

i. The Water Damsel

The Blue Bubble

The Lady with the White Fangs

On Becoming Alien

My Own Personal Rheinmaiden

ii. Golden Letters

Spectra & Sentience

SCHEMES

The Blue Dreamers

Black Diamond Arts

J. Alfred & the Great White

The Little Merman

Ulysses, Son of Laërtes

The Brave Little Tailor

Poetry in the Deep

Escape from Aatari Doom

The Best Laid Plans

The Ascendancy of Baulis Prime

OUT OF COUNTRY

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Across the Street

iii. At the Caffè

iv. Auberge Espagnol

Alicia del Espejo

Spin the Bottle

The Flight of the Chronus

The English Garden

MASTERS OF CHANCE

In the Contabri Bar

Venus & the Fly

A Tale of Two Worlds

Fractal Masters & Fractal Mystics

The Tyrian Corridor

At the Pangolin Gardens

The Nature of the Game

The Bright Hills of Yunnan

The Chancemasters of Die

TALES

The Ancient Mariner

Claudine de Montréal

Yunnan Gold & the Madeleine

All the Tea in China

The Stories They Told Themselves

The Librarian's Tale

The Waitresses of Chengdu

Antiny & the Wizard Ship of Albinon

GIRLS WHO

The Political Climate

The Finest Ear-Muffs Money Can Buy

The Book of Fractals

Dance of the Seven Veils

The Seventh Veil

White Light on Fractal

OTHER GIRLS WHO DO TOO

Times New Roman

The Monkey King

Proust in the Morning

Drive Our Ships to New Lands

Molotova the Whip

IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF DOOM

Twilight of the Idols

As Loki Steers Us

Transcanada: A Dream of Combustion

The Storm Troopers Return

Alien Extraction

An Elusive Metaphor

--

EARTH 2.7

In the Field of Flowers

In the Seventh House

The French Maid

In the New Beginning

En Route to the Old Cafe

Rablanar & the OC

La Vie en Orange

Au Bord de la Seine

The Baulomorphs Get It On

From the Battery

NEW LINES OF CONTROL

The Crazy Diamond

The Condensation of Demon Saints

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive

The Ties That Bind

The Bind That Flies

In the Ephemera Café

The Monster in the Manor

The Golden Hill

UNDERGRAD ENGLISH

Introduction: Higher Learning

Essay Structure

Writing Tips & Conventions

LITERARY ANALYSIS

Literary Analysis: Six Categories

-- The Falling Girl

-- Time in Slaughterhouse-Five

-- States of Mind

4: Relationship

-- Moulin Rouge!

-- Paint It Black

Six Categories In Black Robe

Black Robe Context

The Rose & Skull: Hamlet

The Rose & Skull: Introduction

Background to Hamlet

The Rose & Skull: Lovers in a Dangerous Time

LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME

Colonialism & the Cold War (1109)

THE QUIET AMERICAN

QA Interview & Article

QA Sample Essay

THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY

YD Sukarno's Year

YD Essay & Article

YD A Tricky Narrative

Comparative Essays -- Betrayal and Good Intentions

-- Sex Trade & Orientalism

ACADEMIC WRITING

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

16 Rhetorical Strategies

-- Twain & Gore

Music & Graphics

Music Description

Music Terms A-L

Music Terms M-Z

Contents: Gospel & Universe

Table of Contents

Annotated Contents: Part One

Annotated Contents: Part Two

Preface

Situating Agnosticism

Approach, Overview, & Aim

Rivers of Change

P.O.V. 1: Family

P.O.V. 2: Literature

P.O.V. 3: Fault Lines

A Positive-Sum Philosophy

Freedom of Thought

Introduction

The Mysterious Heavens

Huxley's Definition

To Believe and Not to Believe

Types of Agnosticism

Sitting on Fences

A Literary Approach

On Nightingales and Unified Sensibility

The Unconvinced

Agnostic Geometry

Skeptics & Stoics

A Rough Chronology

Agnosticism Among the Isms

Not Quite Skeptical 1

Not Quite Skeptical 2

Nor Quite Stoic 1 - Meditations

Nor Quite Stoic 2 - The Bigger Picture

The Sum of All Space

Third Spinning Rock from the Sun

Competing Explanations

Dogma and the Stars

The Chinese Sky

The Outer Reaches 1

The Outer Reaches 2

The Unknown Arcs of a Sphere

Alas, Poor Yorick

Science & Mystery

Possible Explanations

Dante's Journey

Don't Forget the Miller

Summa Post Theologica

Bruno & Saint Francis

Secrets and Mysteries

Two Sides of the Fence

The Crystal Ball of Science

Man's Best Friend

A River Journey

Mountain Springs

A Chinese Interlude

French Currents

Riverboats & Sheep

Fry Day: the Atheist Fish

Rome 2: Odysseus, Prufrock...

Rome 3: The Eye of the Gods

Heraclitus: Athens & Allahabad

Rushdie's Sea of Stories

Three Little Words

Critical Distance

Locke's Double Key

Locked Into This World

Montaigne's Balance

Pyrrho's Equilibrium & Zhuangzi's Pivot

Hegel's Dialectic

Whitman's Cosmos

Byron: Carrying Sail

Byron: Trickster of Change

Keats' Negative Capability

The English Garden of Sense

Tennyson's Ulysses

The Problem With Explanations

Señor Locke

The Gringo Takes Stock

Under the Umbrellas

Beneath the Aonian Mount 1

Train of Memory

Howling at the Moon

Beneath the Aonian Mount 2

In the Valley of Darién

The Tiny Pyramids of Ra

Señor Locke and the Jaguar

Aura 3: Inside Van Gogh's Ear

Aura 4: In the Shadow of Macbeth

The Floating World

At The Wild & Fog

A Misty Maze, But Not Without A Plan

Pope: A Mighty Maze

What the Dickens

Love Amid the Fog

God Among the Scientists

Hutton's Hammer

Jardine's Monkeys

A Passage to Forster

From London to the Marabar Caves

Almost Existential

Poor, Bare, Forked

Between the Flippers

Doctors of Revolt

In the Shadow of Borges

Hitler's Perfect World

Ontology Precedes Epistemology

The Permeable Self

Cloud Illusions

The Mermaid

The Epic Heroine

The Wine-Dark Sea

The Queen of Love

Beyond Alienation

Myth & Mysticism

Many Tribes

Six Versions of Infinity

The Creation of Outcasts

A Specific Version of Infinity

Nothing in Damascus

Myth and Religion

Anti-Definitions

All Those Things the Wise Men Say

The Currents of Sumer

Introduction & Overview

Currents of History

The Exegete & the Philologist

Zero & Positive Sums

The Bounty of Sumer & Akkad

Again, Minus 1 Plus 1

Rewind & Fast-Forward

Grace: The Most Positive Sum

Myths of Sin & Divinity

The Archaeology of Mystery

Post & Other Scripts

The Return of Enlil

Systems

Systems of Dread & Hope

Currents of Christianity

Selective Grace

Exclusive Geographies

Christianity 2.0

Systems of Operation

The Scoundrels of Theology

Versions of Deity

Churches of Thought

Unlimited Agnosticism

"Open Your Heart" 1

"Open Your Heart" 2

"Open Your Heart" 3

Saint Francis

The Baby and the Bathwater

Believe It or Else

Pascal's Wager 1: Pensées

Pascal 2: It Isn't Necessary to Wager

Pascal 3: God & Infinity

Pascal 4: Zhuangzi in Tipasa

Pascal 5: The Cosmic Casino

From Kerry to Crete

Canticle to the Stars

The Apple Merchant of Babylon

The Genealogy of Mortals

Moses & the Apple Merchants of Babylon

Final Judgments

Aziz & the Crimson Cup

The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 1

The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 2

In the Beginning

Adam and the Snake

The Journey West

The Priest's Dilemma

Pinpoints of Light

The Golden Triangle

Priest & Pastor

Believing in the Mystery

The God That Has No Name

A Global Picture

Rushdie: The Fiction of Doubt

The Rise of the Simurg

All the Letters Mixed Up

When Religions Collide

When Religions Come Together

Eruptions of the Sacred

The Return of the Simurg

Iconoclasts: Flapping Eagle

The Rock: Amina Sinai

The Poet & the Three Weird Sisters

The Flight of Angels: Gabriel and Allelujah

Ars Moriendi

Dying by the Law

Post Scriptum, Post Mortem, Agnosticum

Like Flies to Wanton Boys

The Deadly Force of Chance

Living by the Numbers

Dying by the Numbers

The Readiness is All

Beyond Whose Bourne

On the Pageant Faded

Short Fiction

Short Fiction (Contents)

Roman Holiday 1: Campo de' Fiori

Let Me Be Thy Choir

The Wine-Dark Sea 1: Seduction

- 2: Eat, Play, Leave

The Dance of the Seven Veils

Le Bijou 1: The Star of Montmartre

- 2: The Scholar

- 3: The Third Act

The Apple Merchant of Babylon 1: Genesis

- 2 : Begin at the Beginning

- 3: The Confused Astronomers of Babylon

- 4: Again, In the Beginning

The Blue-Eyed Sicilian 1: I, Claudia

- 2: Il Giardino Inglese

- 3: Second Base

Poetry

Poetry (Contents)

That Undiscovered Country

Petits Poèmes en Prose

Working the Traps

Politics

Politics: Contents

Nothing in Damascus

Transparently Multicultural

An English Department on Fallar Discordia

The Algorithmics

The Ghost of Crises Past

Three Girls Who

The Tao of Putin

Our Lady of the Harbour

Jovanka on the Bridge

War: Songs & Poems

The Reign of Error: 1. Prophecy

About Me

About Me (Contents)

1980s Asia

Intro, Map, & Contents

Yangshao & Dali

Kunming to Kashgar

The Philippines

Photos

Photos (Places & Art)

Paris, 2010 (photos)

Mexico (Photos)

Croatia & Slovenia

Golf Courses in B.C.

Salta & Iguazú

Taormina to Turin

Rome: About Town

From Mallorca to Madrid

Mesopotamia: from Sumer to Assyria

Egypt: Cats, Coffins, & the Afterlife

Roman Sculture: Dramas in Stone

Florence: the Sacred & the Profane

Pisa: Towers & Triptychs

Hindu & Buddhist Art - 1. from The British Museum

Hindu & Buddhist Art - 2. from Le Guimet

THE FRACTAL HEART - Introductory Pages

Earth: 2016 to Present

LINES

By the Light of Fractals 1

By the Light of Fractals 2

Dinner Guests from Baulis Prime

The Collected Works of Humpty Dumpty

The Homework Blues

The Eggs of Cosmic Chance

CHANGES

On the Wing 1: Beneath the Old Apple Tree

On the Wing 2: Natural Selection

On the Wing 3: The Grim Brothers

On the Wing 4: Quest

On Becoming Human

Lingua Franca 1

Lingua Franca 2

And Carbuncle His Eyes

DISCOVERIES

Antiny the 23rd

Pietro Parlante

Zadar & Qualini

The Hidden Star

Between the Sheets

By the Light of Fractals 3

ATTRACTIONS

i. The Water Damsel

The Blue Bubble

The Lady with the White Fangs

On Becoming Alien

My Own Personal Rheinmaiden

ii. Golden Letters

Spectra & Sentience

SCHEMES

The Blue Dreamers

Black Diamond Arts

J. Alfred & the Great White

The Little Merman

Ulysses, Son of Laërtes

The Brave Little Tailor

Poetry in the Deep

Escape from Aatari Doom

The Best Laid Plans

The Ascendancy of Baulis Prime

OUT OF COUNTRY

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Across the Street

iii. At the Caffè

iv. Auberge Espagnol

Alicia del Espejo

Spin the Bottle

The Flight of the Chronus

The English Garden

MASTERS OF CHANCE

In the Contabri Bar

Venus & the Fly

A Tale of Two Worlds

Fractal Masters & Fractal Mystics

The Tyrian Corridor

At the Pangolin Gardens

The Nature of the Game

The Bright Hills of Yunnan

The Chancemasters of Die

TALES

The Ancient Mariner

Claudine de Montréal

Yunnan Gold & the Madeleine

All the Tea in China

The Stories They Told Themselves

The Librarian's Tale

The Waitresses of Chengdu

Antiny & the Wizard Ship of Albinon

GIRLS WHO

The Political Climate

The Finest Ear-Muffs Money Can Buy

The Book of Fractals

Dance of the Seven Veils

The Seventh Veil

White Light on Fractal

OTHER GIRLS WHO DO TOO

Times New Roman

The Monkey King

Proust in the Morning

Drive Our Ships to New Lands

Molotova the Whip

IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF DOOM

Twilight of the Idols

As Loki Steers Us

Transcanada: A Dream of Combustion

The Storm Troopers Return

Alien Extraction

An Elusive Metaphor

--

EARTH 2.7

In the Field of Flowers

In the Seventh House

The French Maid

In the New Beginning

En Route to the Old Cafe

Rablanar & the OC

La Vie en Orange

Au Bord de la Seine

The Baulomorphs Get It On

From the Battery

NEW LINES OF CONTROL

The Crazy Diamond

The Condensation of Demon Saints

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive

The Ties That Bind

The Bind That Flies

In the Ephemera Café

The Monster in the Manor

The Golden Hill

UNDERGRAD ENGLISH

Introduction: Higher Learning

Essay Structure

Writing Tips & Conventions

LITERARY ANALYSIS

Literary Analysis: Six Categories

-- The Falling Girl

-- Time in Slaughterhouse-Five

-- States of Mind

4: Relationship

-- Moulin Rouge!

-- Paint It Black

Six Categories In Black Robe

Black Robe Context

The Rose & Skull: Hamlet

The Rose & Skull: Introduction

Background to Hamlet

The Rose & Skull: Lovers in a Dangerous Time

LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME

Colonialism & the Cold War (1109)

THE QUIET AMERICAN

QA Interview & Article

QA Sample Essay

THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY

YD Sukarno's Year

YD Essay & Article

YD A Tricky Narrative

Comparative Essays -- Betrayal and Good Intentions

-- Sex Trade & Orientalism

ACADEMIC WRITING

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

16 Rhetorical Strategies

-- Twain & Gore

Music & Graphics

Music Description

Music Terms A-L

Music Terms M-Z

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The Rose & Skull: Hamlet
The Rose & Skull: Introduction
HAMLET
Background to Hamlet
Passages 1
Passages 2
Passages 3
Passages 4
Passages 5
Ophelia (1109)
Response 1A
1B
Response 2A
2B
2C
Response 3A
3B
3C
Response 4A
4B
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