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Chapters (34)
  1. Copyright Notice
  2. FOREWORD
  3. I
  4. The goldfish, the pink chaise, the fly
  5. Lance Sterling fires his cap guns, Omar takes a bath
  6. Carlotta
  7. The scarred old toad
  8. The restless creeping of the worm
  9. The raised blade
  10. The Hung Far Low
  11. A ten-dollar car for ten dollars
  12. The country house
  13. The broken pencil question
  14. The morning pill, bedtime pill, two o’clock in the afternoon pill
  15. II
  16. A family of pastoral delinquents
  17. Rosen, Lance, Omar, Aram
  18. The toad’s peculiar poison
  19. The fewmet of the bully
  20. It’s nice shitting in the woods
  21. The Volcano Bar diet
  22. The first tomato
  23. The goddamn baby
  24. III
  25. The house almost atop the hill
  26. Rennel
  27. This place is hard to find
  28. A steely determination to die
  29. Siesta Time 24-Hour Laundromat
  30. The cat, the fish, and the toad
  31. EDITOR’S NOTE
  32. Also by Katherine Dunn
  33. A Note About the Author
  34. Newsletter Sign-up

Sam flashed a grin and lifted his eyebrows in horror. “You mean, I didn’t tell you about that? What a scene. Listen, it seems that pipes are like diamonds. They’re very tough, unless you hit them in a particular way. Then they go to smithereens. It’s like dynamite. Nitroglycerin. You can drop it off the George Washington Bridge or run trains over it sometimes without anything happening, but if just the right combination of stresses and forces occur together, a fly landing on it will set it off.