By the Numbers Book

I Bit Parts

Northwest Passage 5

In Shakespeare 6

Special Victims Unit 7

Subject, Verb, Object 8

Emergency Measures 9

Metallurgy for Dummies 10

Head-On 15

Iron Age 16

Classic Bar Scenes 17

I. Apollo at Happy Hour

II. Ovidian Deposition

III. Pygmalion among the Young

IV. Twilight of a God

V. Orpheus at Last Call

VI. Apollo in Age

Zeus: A Press Conference 22

State-Sponsored 23

Echo 24

Bit Parts 25

The God Who 26

II Vectors 3.0: Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

III By the Numbers

By the Numbers 57

Birds in Rain 59

Are We Alone? or Physics You Can Do at Home 60

Prokaryotes 67

The Stars in Order Of 68

Origin of Language 75

Songs for Senility 76

Room Temperature 87

IV Small Hours

Shore Town, Winter 91

Tableau 94

Postmortem Georgic 95

Night Lights 100

(1977- )

Blackout

The Rich Man Sotto Voce

To a Tea

Slice of Life

Who Has Seen the Wind

Red, Green, Blue

Star

Reading Light

Roads Not Taken 103

Roads Taken 104

End of Summer 105

Notes 107

About the Author 111