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AUTHOR’S NOTES
1. THE CROW ON THE CEILING FAN
Blood from Dwarfs
The Doctor Dwells on Lady Duckworth’s Breasts
Mr. Lal Has Missed the Net
2. THE UPSETTING NEWS
Still Tingling
The Famous Twin
The Doctor as Closet Screenwriter
Dr. Daruwalla Is Stricken with Self-Doubt
Because an Elephant Stepped on a Seesaw
3. THE REAL POLICEMAN
Mrs. Dogar Reminds Farrokh of Someone Else
Not a Wise Choice of People to Offend
A Real Detective at Work
How the Doctor’s Mind Will Wander
4. THE OLD DAYS
The Bully
Austrian Interlude
Inexplicable Hairlessness
Stuck in the Past
5. THE VERMIN
Learning the Movie Business
But Had He Learned Anything Worth Knowing?
Not the Curry
A Slum Is Born
The Camphor Man
6. THE FIRST ONE OUT
Separated at Birth
A Knack for Offending People
What if Mrs. Dogar Was a Hijra?
Load Cycle
7. DR. DARUWALLA HIDES IN HIS BEDROOM
Now the Elephants Will Be Angry
The First-Floor Dogs
Inoperable
8. TOO MANY MESSAGES
For Once, the Jesuits Don’t Know Everything
The Same Old Scare; a Brand-New Threat
The Skywalk
9. SECOND HONEYMOON
Before His Conversion, Farrokh Mocks the Faithful
The Doctor Is Turned On
The Doctor Encounters a Sex-Change-in-Progress
10. CROSSED PATHS
Testing for Syphilis
A Literary Seduction Scene
Lunch Is Followed by Depression
A Dirty Hippie
11. THE DILDO
Behind Every Journey Is a Reason
A Memorable Arrival
Our Friend, the Real Policeman
The Unwitting Courier
12. THE RATS
Four Baths
With Dieter
Nancy Gets Sick
13. NOT A DREAM
A Beautiful Stranger
Nancy Is a Witness
The Getaway
The Wrong Toe
Farrokh Is Converted
The Doctor and His Patient Are Reunited
14. TWENTY YEARS
A Complete Woman, but One Who Hates Women
Remembering Aunt Promila
A Childless Couple Searches for Rahul
The Police Know the Movie Is Innocent
A View of Two Marriages at a Vulnerable Hour
What the Dwarf Sees
15. DHAR’S TWIN
Three Old Missionaries Fall Asleep
Early Indications of Mistaken Identity
The Wrong Taxi-Walla
Proselyte-Hunting Among the Prostitutes
All Together—in One Small Apartment
Free Will
Standing Still: An Exercise
Bird-Shit Boy
16. MR. GARG’S GIRL
A Little Something Venereal
Martin Luther Is Put to Dubious Use
Another Warning
Madhu Uses Her Tongue
A Meeting at Crime Branch Headquarters
No Motive
Martin’s Mother Makes Him Sick
A Half Dozen Cobras
At the Mission, Farrokh Is Inspired
Tetracycline
17. STRANGE CUSTOMS
Southern California
Turkey (Bird and Country)
Two Different Men, Both Wide Awake
18. A STORY SET IN MOTION BY THE VIRGIN MARY
Limo Roulette
Mother Mary
Is There a Gene for It, Whatever It Is?
The Enigmatic Actor
Something Rather Odd
19. OUR LADY OF VICTORIES
Another Author in Search of an Ending
The Way It Happened to Mr. Lal
Some Small Tragedy
Not a Romantic Comedy
A Make-Believe Death; the Real Children
20. THE BRIBE
Time to Slip Away
Bedbugs Ahead
Raging Hormones
The Hawaiian Shirt
The Actor Guesses Right
Farrokh Remembers the Crow
A Three-Dollar Bill?
Just Some Old Attraction-Repulsion Kind of Thing
21. ESCAPING MAHARASHTRA
Ready for Rabies
Lucky Day
Out of Place at the Taj
Too Loud for a Library
A Misunderstanding at the Urinal
Fear No Evil
22. THE TEMPTATION OF DR. DARUWALLA
On the Road to Junagadh
A Racist Chimpanzee
A Perfect Ending
The Night of 10,000 Steps
23. LEAVING THE CHILDREN
Not Charlton Heston
Jesus in the Parking Lot
Little India
24. THE DEVIL HERSELF
Getting Ready for Rahul
Just Dancing
Happy New Year
“Auld Lang Syne”
25. JUBILEE DAY
No Monkey
The Wrong Madhu
Take Me Home
26. GOOD-BYE, BOMBAY
Well, Then
Not a Word
Dr. Daruwalla Decides
Just Close Your Eyes
Just India
27. EPILOGUE
The Volunteer
The Bottommost Drawer
Sort of Fading Now
Allowed to Use the Lift at Last
Not the Dwarfs
Also by John Irving
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