The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again

Title......Page 1
Prologue
Godhead, or doing hard time......Page 2
EXTRACT FROM THE TRIAL OF Barion
UNAUTHORIZED EXPERIMENTATION AND PREMATURE SEEDING
(From Sorlij's testimony)......Page 3
Your teeth are okay
but your gums have to come out......Page 4
Hazards of terminal patriotism; enter a blonde......Page 6
Downturns in the deity line......Page 8
4 Children of the century......Page 12
Song of Scheherazade......Page 16
Light Speed......Page 22
Them old live forever, die tomorrow blues......Page 30
After the ball......Page 34
Waltz for cobras......Page 37
I saw the universe once; it was closed . . .......Page 44
Ladies of the hour......Page 51
—And a nice girl from out of town......Page 56
Two views from the summit......Page 71
Now it's time to play "You Bet Your Life"......Page 75
Double-parked in the City of God......Page 82
Christian reconstruction......Page 86
The treacherous Wycherley......Page 92
No worm unturned......Page 98
The more things change . . .......Page 107
ABOUT THE AUTHOR An Apology......Page 114