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Rhetorical Contents | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction: Reading in the Various Genres | 1 | |
1 | Reflections on Experience | 33 |
Grandmother's Sunday Dinner | 34 | |
Boyhood with Gurdjieff | 37 | |
Just Say No to Rugs | 41 | |
Number One! | 44 | |
A Hole in the World | 48 | |
The Letter "A" | 52 | |
Rumenotomy on a Cow | 58 | |
Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters | 60 | |
Winter Dreams | 64 | |
Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought | 83 | |
The Solitary | 84 | |
2 | Influential People and Memorable Places | 85 |
My Father's Life | 85 | |
Antidisestablishmentarianism | 93 | |
My Brother, Gary Gilmore | 100 | |
Lessons | 112 | |
from Letters Home | 117 | |
The Taj Mahal | 119 | |
Niagara Falls | 131 | |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find | 138 | |
The Youngest Daughter | 152 | |
Those Winter Sundays | 154 | |
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | 155 | |
3 | The Human Condition | 156 |
The Lowest Animal | 157 | |
The Chinese and the Sense of Shame | 162 | |
The Social Sense | 173 | |
The Perils of Obedience | 186 | |
So This Was Adolescence | 199 | |
A Few Words About Breasts | 202 | |
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | 209 | |
Stages of Dying | 214 | |
An Old Man | 220 | |
The Miller's Tale | 224 | |
Funny | 229 | |
When You Are Old | 231 | |
Am I Blue? | 232 | |
4 | The Value of Education | 250 |
Learning to Read and Write | 251 | |
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society | 256 | |
Civilize Them with a Stick | 265 | |
In Defense of Elitism | 272 | |
Think About it | 277 | |
"Speech Codes" on the Campus and Problems of Free Speech | 282 | |
The School | 289 | |
Learning to Read | 292 | |
Workday | 294 | |
5 | Perspectives on Language | 296 |
The Language of Clothes | 296 | |
Language and Thought | 302 | |
The Day Language Came into My Life | 307 | |
Propaganda under a Dictatorship | 310 | |
Pornography | 316 | |
Little Red Riding Hood | 322 | |
Women and the Language of Men | 324 | |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | 337 | |
Myth | 347 | |
Listen mr oxford don | 348 | |
6 | Issues in Society | 350 |
The Turbid Ebb & Flow of Misery | 351 | |
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir | 356 | |
Ron Maydon | 360 | |
The Flesh and the Devil | 366 | |
Want-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness | 373 | |
What Is Poverty? | 373 | |
What's Wrong with TV? Talk Shows | 382 | |
Advertisements for Oneself | 389 | |
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! | 392 | |
Desiree's Baby | 398 | |
Say Yes | 403 | |
Cervicide | 407 | |
Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 | 408 | |
Streets of Philadelphia | 410 | |
Barbie Doll | 411 | |
Tea Party | 412 | |
7 | The Natural World | 417 |
Thinking like a Mountain | 418 | |
A Very Warm Mountain | 420 | |
Playing Tag with Wild Dolphins | 427 | |
Is Humanity Suicidal? | 429 | |
Big Mac and the Tropical Forests | 435 | |
How to Kill an Ocean | 444 | |
Looking for a Rain God | 454 | |
I Am A Cat | 457 | |
Crow's Elephant Totem Song | 469 | |
8 | The Historical Dimension | 472 |
Finding the Tomb | 473 | |
To Make Them Stand in Fear | 479 | |
Sullivan Ballou Letter | 482 | |
Death of Abraham Lincoln | 484 | |
The San Francisco Earthquake | 492 | |
R. M. S. Titanic | 498 | |
A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima | 509 | |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | 521 | |
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen | 529 | |
Ozymandias | 543 | |
Child's Memory | 544 | |
9 | The Individual and the State | 547 |
Rights of Man | 548 | |
We Have Our State | 551 | |
The Red Guards | 556 | |
A Nazi Prison in the Caribbean | 565 | |
I Have a Dream | 573 | |
Eulogy for a Princess | 578 | |
The Guest | 581 | |
The Unknown Citizen | 592 | |
At First I Was Given Centuries | 594 | |
The Colonel | 596 | |
Protest | 597 | |
10 | Discoveries in Science and Technology | 618 |
A Clone Is Born | 618 | |
Identical Twins Reared Apart | 633 | |
Technology in Reverse | 641 | |
Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave It | 644 | |
Women and Computers: Is There Equity in Cyberspace? | 649 | |
The Enormous Radio | 661 | |
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | 670 | |
I'm Gonna Be an Engineer | 671 | |
11 | The Artistic Impulse | 674 |
How to Write with Style | 675 | |
Still Just Writing | 678 | |
What Is Real? | 687 | |
The Exorcist Massage Parlor | 691 | |
Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style, & Image | 697 | |
Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle | 708 | |
What Was Mine | 712 | |
In My Craft or Sullen Art | 721 | |
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant | 722 | |
In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See | 723 | |
12 | Ethical, Philosophical, and Religious Issues | 727 |
The Meaning of Ethics | 728 | |
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor | 739 | |
The Prisoner's Dilemma | 744 | |
My Patient's Suicide | 751 | |
Monsters of the Brave New World | 755 | |
If I Die in a Combat Zone | 760 | |
Salvation | 765 | |
The Country of the Blind | 767 | |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | 787 | |
The Allegory of the Cave | 801 | |
Parables in the New Testament | 806 | |
"Buddha-Nature" and "The Way of Purification" | 811 | |
Islamic Folk Stories | 813 | |
The Road Not Taken | 815 | |
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | 817 | |
The Second Coming | 817 | |
Credits | 820 | |
Index of Authors and Titles | 825 |
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