Teresa my love : an imagined life of the Saint of Avila : a novel

Content: Part 1: The Nothingness of All Things --
1. Present by Default --
2. Mystical Seduction --
3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean --
4. Homo Viator --
Part 2: --
Understanding Through Fiction --
5. Prayer, Writing, Politics --
6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch --
7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in Me --
Part 3: --
The Wanderer --
8. Everything So Constrained Me --
9. Her Lovesickness --
Part 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being --
11. Bombs and Ramparts --
12. "Cristo como hombre" --
13. Image, Vision, and Rapture --
14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices" --
15. A Clinical Lucidity --
16. The Minx and the Sage --
17. Better to Hide . . .? --
18. ". . . Or 'to do what lies within my power' "? --
19. From Hell to Foundation --
Part 5: --
From Ecstasy to Action --
20. The Great Tide --
21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty --
22. The Maternal Vocation --
23. Constituting Time --
24. Tutti a cavallo --
Part 6: Foundation-Persecution --
25. The Mystic and the Jester --
26. A Father Is Beaten to Death --
27. A Runaway Girl --
28. "Give me trials, Lord
 give me persecutions" --
29. "With the ears of the soul" --
Part 7: --
Dialogues from Beyond the Grave --
30. Act I. Her Women --
31. Act II. Her Eliseus --
32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca" --
33. Act IV. The Analyst's Farewell --
Part 8: --
Postscript --
34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a Nun.