The Expectations of Light

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART I
IN ORDER TO PERCEIVE
CONTAINMENT
DWARF
OLD WOMEN
SECOND-STORY BALLROOM
THE REINCARNATED
SUPPOSE YOUR FATHER WAS A REDBIRD
WITHOUT VIOLENCE
COMING OF AGE
FOR STEPHEN DRAWING BIRDS
STRUCK SEVEN TIMES
WATCHING DREAMS
THE CARETAKERS
THE RITES OF PASSAGE
PART II
How TO STAY SAFE IN THE CITY
How You CAME
THE QUESTION OF AFFECTION
BEING DEFINED
SEDUCED BY EAR ALONE
HEARING THE UNEXPECTED
THE FIRST NORTHER
ACHIEVING PERSPECTIVE
ON YOUR IMMINENT DEPARTURE: CONSIDERING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF VARIOUS MOTIONS
TRYING MAGIC
HIRING THE MAN WHO BUILDS FIRES FOR A LIVING
CROCODILE GOD
THE VIEWPOINT OF THE UNBELIEVABLE
How THE MOON BECOMES ITSELF
PART III
ILLUMINATION
THE BRAIN CREATES ITSELF
How THE BODY IN MOTION AFFECTS THE MIND
THE MAN HIDDEN BEHIND THE DRAPES
How THE FIELD, WITHOUT BEING TOUCHED, CAN BE ALTERED
THE ZOO: HOW THE CAPTURED ANIMAL MAINTAINS HIS POWER
CONCEPTS AND THEIR BODIES (THE BOY IN THE FIELD Alone)
WHAT THE BODY MEANS TO BELIEF
AN ACT OF CONVICTION
HANDLING DESPAIR
DETERMINING LOCATION
THE DETERMINATIONS OF THE SCENE
BEING OF THIS STATE
SUPPOSITION
How THE SCENE INFLUENCES OCCASIONS
THE SUCCESS OF THE HUNT
PART IV
A GIANT HAS SWALLOWED THE EARTH
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LOCATION
COUNTING WHAT THE CACTUS CONTAINS
MAKING A HISTORY
FINDING THE FIRE LINE
PORTRAIT
SEEING THE GLORY
ON THE EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL
SYNTHESIZING THE WORD
THE LITERARY MAN
BY HEARING THE SAME STORY OVER AND OVER
ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE SCENE
THAT SONG
THE LITERARY ADVENTURE
NASA TAKES A 63-YEAR-OLD POET TO THE FIRST SPACE STATION
THE FEAR OF FALLING
CAPTURING THE SCENE