1. Arrival or Wrong Beginnings
2. The General Welfare of Our Eastern Empire
3. The Point of Departure or The House of Mourning
4. Welcome Home or Mother of Exiles
5. The Situation in Our Colonies
6. Blood Telegram or Bill and Dave
7. The Violin or Leipzig
8. Poggendorff and Purkyně
9. Dressage and the Common Touch
10. In the Time of the Breaking of Nations
11. Twenty Questions or Failing to Credit Risk
12. Henna Tattoo or Redundant and/or Superfluous
13. Alessandro Moisi Iacoboni
14. The Colonel, the General, the Nuclear Physicist, the Spymaster, and the Novice
15. Where Credit Is Due
16. A Modest Proposal
17. My Brother’s Keeper or Betrayal
18. The Blood-Dimmed Tide
19. Requiem for the Unlived Life
20. The Gospel of St. Thomas
21. On Formally Undecidable Propositions or Waiting
22. Our Scattered Leaves
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author
Notes