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An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and "Einsteinian" destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a "father of the nuclear age;" evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.

Contents:

• Introduction: Thinkability
• Bujak and the Strong Force, or God's Dice
• Insight at Flame Lake
• The Time Disease
• The Little Puppy That Could
• The Immortals

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