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Part One: The Boy in the Tree

Part Two: Stories for Boys

1. Primordial Zone Of Bohemia

2. Convergence of a number of separate and independent probabilities

3. Introduction of new life forms

4. A break in the historical record

5. The dark labyrinth of the ages

6. Articulate animals

7. Some races can boast of an immemorial antiquity

8. “The riddle of the painful earth …”

9. A sudden and awful convulsion of nature

10. An interminable vista is opened out for the future

Part Three: After the Rain of Roses

Part Four: Blood at the Butterfly Ball

1. The fragments of a repeatedly shattered world

2. The light of imagination is quenched in . the darkness of a history so ancient.

3. The birth of yesterday

4. Organic beings of a different character

5. Well-preserved fossils

6. Primitive colors

7. Somewhat dubious affinities

8. The traces of the existence of a body

Part Five: The Players’ Book

Part Six: The Skeleton Transcendent

1. Catastrophes of different kinds

2. Parts of the nature of a skeleton

3. A brief and paroxysmal period

4. Conceptions of celestial space

5. An exceeding barbarous condition of the human species

6. “The dark backward and abysm of time”

7. Delicate details of internal structure

Part Seven: A Masque of Owls

Part Eight: The Gaping One Awakes

1. The central fire and the rain from heaven

2. All traces of organic remains become annihilated

3. The most remarkable of the beasts of prey

4. We shrink back affrighted at the vastness of the conception

5. A lapse of misrepresented time

6. The most formidable of the many tyrants

Part Nine: Winterlong

Author’s Afterword

A Biography of Elizabeth Hand