Acknowledgments -- Early occult memory systems of the lower midwest -- Moses Yellowhorse is throwing water balloons from the Hotel Roosevelt -- Mrs. Hill -- The potato eaters -- Holy rollers, Cnyder, Texas, 1951 -- The big bands : Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955 -- Hearing Parker the first time -- The follies burlesque, Market Street, Kansas City -- Delivering eggs to the girls' dorm -- Rave on -- The memory of a possible future -- Blood rain -- The death of a psychic -- History -- The decline of utopian ideas in the West -- Luck -- A Roman grave -- On the passing of Jesus freaks from the college classroom -- Brazil -- Weather report -- The second annual Wizard of Oz reunion in Liberal, Kansas -- The welder, visited by the angel of mercy -- The blue Buick : a narrative -- Three poems by Roy Eldridge Garcia : Mlle Pym ; The levitations ; A man in a machine shop -- A Wall map of Paris -- A photograph of the Titanic -- The deposition -- A starlit night -- Motion sickness -- At the Cafe de Flore -- At Omaha Beach -- W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Keystone Hotel, San Diego -- The problem -- Two scenes -- The memory palace -- Notes.
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