Parables and Paradoxes - Contents

Contents

  • On Parables
I
  • An Imperial Message
  • Pekin and the Emperor
  • The News of the Building of the Wall: a Fragment
  • The Great wall and the Tower of Babel
II
  • Paradise
  • The Tower of Babel
  • The Pit of Babel
  • The City Coat of Arms
  • Abraham
  • Mount Sinai
  • The Building of the Temple
  • The Animal in the Synagogue
  • Before the Law
  • The Watchman
  • The Coming of the Messiah
III
  • Prometheus
  • Poseidon
  • The Silence of the Sirens
  • The Sirens
  • Leopards in the Temple
  • Alexander the Great
  • Diogenes
  • The New Attorney
IV
  • The Building of a City
  • The Imperial Colonel
  • The Emperor
  • In the Caravanary
  • The Cell
  • The Invention of the Devil
  • The Savages
  • The Hunter Gracchus + Fragment
  • The Vulture
  • The Green Dragon
  • The Tiger
  • The Problem of Our Laws
  • The Refusal
  • Couriers
  • A Chinese Puzzle
  • The Truth about Sancho Panza
  • The Test
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • The Spring
  • The Hunger Strike
  • My Destination

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