Content
Prologue - 1. The Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall - 2. Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual - 3. The Romancing of a Pathologic Liar Comes to an Inspired End - 4. A Soul Tormented Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy - 5. Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room - 6. Euphoria Descends a Sousalito Stairway - 7. Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges - 8. A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apotheosis - 9. A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise - 10. The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails - Epilogue