Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Member of the Mystik Krewe -- The Metrist at the Operetta -- Stylization and Its Failures -- WTC -- Cities of the Plain and Fancy -- Not to Seize the Moment -- Transpositions -- Aurora Borealis of the Inner Eye -- The Creatures of Prometheus -- Uses of Hot Air -- Junkerdom in Huntsville -- Distant Early Warning -- The Dueling Scar -- Karl and Julius and Gregory, or, Are You a Fructidor? -- Sonar Readings -- Now You See It, Now You Don't -- A Diamond Is Forever -- Oysters and Other Workers -- Smile Please -- Adam with a Garden Hose -- Let My People Go, but not without Severance Pay -- Manual vs. White Collar -- Program Notes for an Orgy -- In the Matter of Graven Images -- Sensitivity Training: The Safecracker -- J. P. Morgan -- Neckties -- A Different Perspective on A Rebours -- Favorites -- Crime and Punishment -- Boxcar Arthur and Other Myth -- Boxcar Arthur, the Sequel -- Enola Gay Rights -- The Second-Guesser -- Estate Planning -- I Dreamed Last Night I Went Again to Manderley -- Victory -- In the Receiving Line -- Venerations -- Hanging On -- Why Geriatrics Are Not Sacrificed -- Watching the Stopwatch Stopping -- The Ultimate National Monument -- The Grateful Minimalist.