Introduction
I. A Low Art
II. The Chorus Line: Rope-Jumping Rhyme
III My Childhood
IV. The Chorus Line: Kiddie Mourn, A Lament by the Maids
V. Asphodel
VI. My Marriage
VII. The Scar
VIII. The Chorus Line: I Was A Princess, A Popular Tune
IX. The Trusted Cackle-Hen
X. The Chorus Line: Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll
XI. Helen Ruins My Life
XII. Waiting
XIII. The Chorus Line: The Wily Sea Captain, A Sea Shanty
XIV. The Suitors Stuff Their Faces
XV. The Shroud
XVI. Bad Dreams
XVII. The Chorus Line: Dreamboats, A Ballad
XVIII. News of Helen
XIX. Yelp of Joy
XX. Slanderous Gossip
XXI. The Chorus Line: The Perils of Penelope, A Drama
XXII. Helen Takes a Bath
XXIII. Odysseus and Telemachus Snuff the Maids
XXIV. The Chorus Line: An Anthropology Lecture
XXV. Heart of Flint
XXVI. The Chorus Line: The Trial of Odysseus, as Videotaped by the Maids
XXVII. Home Life in Hades
XXIX. The Chorus Line: We’re Walking Behind A Love Song
XXIX. Envoi
Notes
Acknowledgements
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