ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTSI. -- I. Introduction -- II. Three Causes of the Discontent -- A. One: Pure Spirit, Pure Form, or the Void -- B. Two: Pure Matter or Energy -- C. Three: The Things of This World -- III. The Method of Disruption -- A. Implications -- B. Disruption Within the Semantic Dimension of Language -- C. Disruption Between the Semantic and Syntactical Dimensions of Language: Contiguity Disorder -- D. Similarity Disorder -- E. Chance -- F. Fragmentation Smaller than the Word -- IV. The Method of Negation -- A. Implications -- B. Exclusion of Certain Uses of Language -- C. Exclusion of Parts of Speech -- D. Exclusion of Metaphor -- E. Reduction in Scope -- V. The Method of Borrowing -- A. Borrowing from Art and Music -- B. Borrowing from Autism -- C. Borrowing from Mathematics -- VI. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.