There came to him an image of man's whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man's life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man's grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.
Contents
| 1. The Drunken Beggar on Horseback
| 3
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| 2. Fame's First Wooing
| 15
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| 3. The Microscopic Gentleman from Japan
| 28
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| 4. Some Things Will Never Change
| 37
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| 9. The City of Lost Men
| 141
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| 15. The Party at Jack's
| 230
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| 16. A Moment of Decision
| 255
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| 17. Mr. Hirsch Could Wait
| 264
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| 18. Piggy Logan's Circus
| 273
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| 19. Unscheduled Climax
| 284
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| 21. Love Is Not Enough
| 312
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| 22. A Question of Guilt
| 325
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| 24. Man-Creating and Man-Alive
| 352
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| 27. The Locusts Have No King
| 399
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| 31. The Promise of America
| 499
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| 32. The Universe of Daisy Purvis
| 511
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| 33. Enter Mr. Lloyd McHarg
| 537
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| 35. A Guest in Spite of Himself
| 568
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| 36. The House in the Country
| 595
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| 37. The Morning After
| 615
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| 41. Five Passengers for Paris
| 665
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| 42. The Family of Earth
| 680
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| 44. The Way of No Return
| 700
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| 46. Even Two Angels Not Enough
| 723
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