In Search of Klingsor Book

Contents

Preface

BOOK ONE

Laws of Narrative Motion

LAW I: All narratives are written by a narrator

LAW II: All narrators offer one, singular truth

LAW III: All narrators possess a motive for narrating

Crimes of War

Hypotheses: From Quantum Physics to Espionage

HYPOTHESIS I: On Bacon's Childhood and Early Years

HYPOTHESIS II: On Von Neumann and the War

HYPOTHESIS III: On Einstein and Love

HYPOTHESIS IV: On Gödel's Theory and Marriage

HYPOTHESIS V: On Bacon's Departure for Germany

Brief Autobiographical Disquisitions: From Set Theory to Totalitarianism

DISQUISITION I: Infancy and the End of an Era

DISQUISITION II: Youth and Irrationality

DISQUISITION III: The Arithmetics of Infinity

DISQUISITION IV: Liberty and Lust

DISQUISITION V: The Search for the Absolute

The Uranium Circle

Parallel Universes

The Quest for the Holy Grail

BOOK TWO

Laws of Criminal Motion

LAW I: All crimes are committed by a criminal

LAW II: Every crime is the portrait of a criminal

LAW III: Every criminal possesses a motive

Max Planck, or a Lesson in Faith

Reasons for Discouragement

Johannes Stark, or a Lesson in Infamy

The Game of War

Werner Heisenberg, or a Lesson in Sadness

The Dangers of Observation

Erwin Schrödinger, or a Lesson in Desire

The Laws of Attraction

The Liar's Paradox

The Dimensions of Affection

Niels Bohr, or a Lesson in Will

Chain Reaction

The Uncertainty Principle

Hidden Variables

Kundry's Curse

BOOK THREE

Laws of Traitorous Motion

LAW I: All men are weak

LAW II: All men are liars

LAW III: All men are traitors

Dialogue I: On Those Forgotten by History

The Conspiracy

Dialogue II: On the Rules Governing Chance

The Bomb

Dialogue III: On the Secrets of Destiny

The Realm of the Occult

Dialogue IV: On the Death of Truth

The Betrayal

Dialogue V: On the Privileges of Insanity

Klingsor's Revenge

End Note