Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. "Oh, How We Misunderstand" (Introduction) -- 2. "The Vessel of the Eternal Present" (The Early Years) -- 3. "When Slow Starts to Mean Something, We Crave Fast" (The ONCE Years) -- 4. "Incredibly Slowly Our View Begins to Slide" (The Mills College Years) -- 5. "I'm Not the Same Person That I Used to Be" (Perfect Lives) -- 6. "Who Could Speak If Every Word Had Meaning?" (Atalanta (Acts of God)) -- 7. "If You Have to Ask You Can't Afford One" (Now Eleanor's Idea) -- 8. "One Thing Follows the Next and I Just Do It" (Dust, Celestial Excursions, Concrete, and Smaller -- Chronological List of Works by Robert Ashley -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Robert Ashley Discography -- Index.