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69 pieces, 300 to 3000 words each: Ressentiment and Schooling / Could Nietzsche have Married Jane Austen? / Van Gogh as Chump / Gautier's Hippo / What Was Wittgenstein? / A Naïve Reading of Descartes / Aristotle and Mollusc Sex / What Was Cratylus Trying to Say? / Parmenides in Szechuan / / Panurge and The Confidence Man / Third-world Joyce / Snapping Lovely Necks / Who was Humbert Humbert? / What is Le Real? / The Re-al and The Real / Le Saumon Real / Y schal do awey al substaunce / The Waters Above the Firmament / Etymological Vaginas / Hemoglobin and Alchemy / Fish Milk / The Muskogee - Waukesha - Bismarck Triangle / "To the Shores of Tripoli" / The Authenticity and Feng Shui of Bob Dylan / Satie and the Sewing Machine / W. C. Fields and the American Family Comedy / The Turkish Kayak / The Crimean Goths / The Torgut Exodus / History of the Caucasian Albanians / 700-Year-Old Syriac Jokes/ The Barbarian Reservoir / Drakon and Solon / The Cynic Emperor / Agamben and Schmitt / Werewolves and the State