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Index of Chapters and Sections
Chapter P, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Dream, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, Four Thought, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, Genesis, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56,
Chapter 1: Vital Forces
Shinji Pilots
Dragon
First Aftermath
Break with the Past
Chapter 2: Nabiki Arrives
First Customer
A New Day, Different $#!+
Settling In, Drawing Plans
Making Plans
School Day
Chapter 3: The Fell Sergeant
The Spawn of Nyogtha
Flight to America
Knight rescued
Boston
The Sixth Children
Flight Home
Chapter 4: Le Chatelier's Principle
Denver
Meanwhile back at the Ranch
San Francisco
Fencing and the Coral Sea
Secret Briefings
Chapter 5: Truth begins as Blasphemy
First Clues
Synchronization Testing
Preparation
Poker Games
Rei's performance
Plugsuit
Sea Stories
Train Dreams
Vacation Day
Meeting Kaji
Chapter 6: The Veterans' First Blood
Hand to hand
Nabiki Confronts Ranma
Revolution
The Battle Begins
Pilots in trouble
Nabiki on the Warpath
Rei's Invasion
Breakfast
The Fourth Angel
Pep Talk
Pregrowl
First meeting with Ikari
Chapter 7: A Turbulent Priest
Darkness Falls
Ranma's Nightmare
Growling
Rei's Apartment
Dark Inklings
Deals and Provocations
Thunder in the Underground
Meetings in the Daylight
Chapter 8: Oderint dum Metuant
Bunk beds
butting heads
Education
Assault
Hair Bomb
Nabiki's Pictures
Chapter 9: Revelations Aren't Victories
Queries and Repose
Cooking Surprises
First Cthonian Attack
Dream of Fire
Admiral Simson's Edge
School Mafia
Secret Techniques
Opening Moves
Sunday Concert
Gambit Refused
Chapter 10: Dream Education
I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told;
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles,
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.
Such are promises: all lies and jest.
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
in the company of strangers
running scared. Laying low,
seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go.
Looking for the places only they would know.
I come looking for a job, but I get no offers,
just a come-on from the whores
there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there.
Now the years are rolling by me,
I am older than I once was, but younger than I'll be.
That's not unusual.
No, it isn't strange,
After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
After changes we are more or less the same.
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
and wishing I was gone.
Going home
where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
leading me,
To go home.
In the clearing stands a boxer,
and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down
or cut him till he cried out
in his anger and his shame,
"I am leaving, I am leaving."
but the fighter still remains.
Family
Honor and Duty
Friends
Wisdom
and Answers
Love
Genesis
Devastation
Ruin
Chapter 11: Green Fire
Green Fire
Waiting
Hoping
Call to War
Asuka in Repose
Clash of Arms
Fist Full of Pilots
The Pilots Emerge
Dramatis Personae
Not the Cavalry
Searching in Town
Follow the Money
Overwatch
Chapter 12: Realignments
Realignments
Answers in the Darkness
Questions
Hidden Snapshots
Polish and Roughen
Return and Recovery
Reaction Under Pressure
Defying the Enemy Doesn't Define the Hero
Service to Others
Chapter 13 - The Rubicon's Dark Frontier
Watershed
Rapids
Ranma's Travail
Plans for the Future
`Treacheries` of a Dragon
Plunge Pool
Waterfall
Chapter 14: Unbending Heaven, Movable Hell
Siren Call
A Slender Reed
Capitulation to the Inevitable
Salutations from the Gloom
Kickbacks
The Variform Pack
Dragon in Antarctica
Body Bag
Confidences
Repayment
Clarion Focus
Chapter 15 - Differing Opinions
Heaping Hot Coals
Investigations
Bad Day
Aftermath
Shinji's Relapse
Chapter 16: Voltaire's Prayer
Coming Clean
Laughable Cries
Brown Hates You Too
Ranko Teaches
2d Briefing
Lab Sabotage
Chapter 17 - Lessons From Your Enemy
Pen Pen
Ranko Learns
Playhouse Beguilement
Ferreting Out Wildcats
Search and Rescue
Gunshot
Employing Grit
Reviving Reverberations
Chapter 18: Freedom and Healing
Dreams Rebuilt
Monday Monday
Into the Depths
Homonculous
MATHS
Chapter 19: Truth Beyond the Veil
Nobu no ni Haiku
Ballet
Gunfire
No Good Deed . . .
Meetings
Chapter 20: Victory - Success Over an Enemy in Battle
Uriah the Hittite
The Festival of Saint Barbara
Wotton's Ambassador
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
F.D.R. Through Wellington and Montaigne
King Lear, Act V, Scene ii, line 293
Douglas MacArthur
Chapter 21: It was Magnificent, but it wasn't War
Correcting An Oversight
Cannons to the Left of Me
The Left is Not Canonical
Out of the Mouth of Hell
Sowing Seeds
The Worst is Yet to Come
There's Not to Reason Why
They're But to Do and Die
Chapter 22: Noblesse Oblige
When Darkness Screams
A London Particular in Tokyo
Blood Bulwark
Timor Mortis Conturbat me
From Where the Blade Fell
Spit Defiance in Their Eye
Lliogor Attack
To the German Commander: Nuts
Chapter 23: But Dr. Freud, That Isn't Even a Cigar
Dancing At the Volcano
To Travel Hopefully
Dreams
Conciliation with Dignity
Honest Friendship With All, Entangling Alliances With None
Rescuing Hikari
Between Eternity and Darkness
Chapter 24 - Explain the Tameness of Wolves
Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip
Night is for hunting, the day is for sleep.
Cub-Right is the right of the Yearling. From all of his Pack he may claim
When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must fight him alone and afar
If ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with your bay
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and SEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN
When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail
Lie down till the leaders have spoken--it may be fair words shall prevail
Keep peace with the Lords of the Jungle
The Kill of the Wolf is the meat of the Wolf. He may do what he will
In all that the Law leaveth open, the word of the Head Wolf is Law.
Chapter 25 - The Cooking Contest
Chapter 26 - Lady or Tiger? Both!
Lessons in Grammar and Math
Confessions in the Dark
Exposed and Susceptible
Resolve Dissolve Clarify
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright
Fire that Warms and Burns
Counter Revolution
In the Darkness
Chapter 27 - Battalions of Steel and Mathematics
Cat Scratch Fever
Price of Doing Business
Feigning Reversal
Epiphany or Epitaph
The Cost of Victory
Sirdar or Steersman
Truth's Keen Lancet
Marring by Blunder's Echo
Chapter 28 - Nabiki's Awakening
Chapter 29 - Restitution
Return
Requital
Redress
Reckoning
Retaliation
Recompense
Chapter 30 - What Faith in Immortality, Joy or Sorrow?
Two o'clock in the Morning Courage
Honest Self-Criticism
Groundwork for Clouds
Listen to the Fizz
Carnival of the Body
Carnival of the Mind
Carnival of the Spirit
Carnival of the Soul
The Brass Ring
Chapter 31 - Sub Rosa, Just Watch the Thorns
Camera Means Vault
Truth and Ice Cream
Snake in the Grass
Sports Agents
The Cry of All, the Game of Few
Fourth of July
Verify is an Event
Making a Majority of One
Chapter 32 - Cthulhu Fhtagn Isn't the Only One
The Dreamers of the Day are Dangerous Men
Resignation is Confirmed Desperation
Puts Man's Best Dreams to Shame
Hope is a Waking Dream
Dreams Mortals Never Dared Before
Vexed To Nightmare
In the Nightmare of the Dark
Attachment, the Great Fabricator
The Most Dangerous Calculations
Dreams Themselves Are Only Dreams
Chapter 33 - History is a Nightmare from Which I am Trying to Awake
A Prophet in Reverse
And I Quote the Fights Historical
Many Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors
People and Governments Never Learned
Dame Exaltee et Menteuse [Excitable Lying Old Lady]
The History of a Soldier's Wound Beguiles the Pain
The Twelfth-Night Duke's Question
Four Thought - A Side Story by R. O. McLean
Chapter 34 - Not Angles but Angels
We Aren't No Thin Red 'eroes
If I Do Not Save It, It Shall Not Save Me
Had Anything Been Wrong, We Should Certainly Have Heard
Save Me From The Candid Friend
Physician, Heal Thyself
I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
Chapter 35 - The Mother of Invention
Acurst Be He That First Invented War
What Fool First Invented Kissing?
Beats All The Lies You Can Invent
It Will Be Necessary To Invent Him
Teaching Swords
Invention Arises From Idleness
Equal License In Bold Invention
Chapter 36 - And Thou Singing Beside Me in the Wilderness
It's Food too Fine For Angels
Ut Quod Ali Cibus Est Aliis Fuat Acre Venenum [What is food to one, is to others bitter poison]
Women and Wine Should Life Employ
Many Companions for Food and Drink
Few Companions For Serious Business
Who Is Not Thursday's Child
Another Such Victory, and We Are Ruined
To Be Alone Is the Fate of All Great Minds
Chapter 37 - And In What Spirit was the Tool Created?
I've Known a Lot of People Ride a Dam' Sight Worse
I've Known a Lof o' Fellows Go a Dam' Sight Worse
I've Known a Lot o' Fellers Shoot a Dam' Sight Worse
I've Known a Lot of Fellows Stalk a Dam' Sight Worse
I've Known a Lot o' Men Behave a Dam' Sight Worse
I've Known Some Pet Battalions Charge a Dam' Sight Less
Chapter 38 - Know That He Who Finds Himself Loses His Misery
The Kitten Who Thought It Was Robespierre
God Forbid I Should Know Myself
I Know Myself, But That Is All
The Proud The Cold Untroubled Heart of Stone
Self-Knowledge Tends To Make Man Shallow Or Insane
Chapter 39 - When The Candles Are Out All Women are Fair, All Cats Be Gray
Behind Him Lay the Gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules
A Handful of Gray Ashes, Long, Long, Ago At Rest
An Old and Gray-Headed Error
Shoot If You Must, This Old, Gray Head, But Spare Your Country's Flag
Dear Friend, All Theory Is Gray
Gray Truth Is Now Her Painted Toy
The Sun That Brief December Day Rose Cheerless Over Hills Of Gray
A Heart Grown Cold, A Head Grown Gray In Vain
Chapter 40 - The Cook, By the Way, Is Not an Inmate
You Can Neither Eat It Nor Make Flannel Out of It
I Suspect His Taste In Higher Matters
Not A Dinner To Ask A Man To
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
I Have Eaten Your Bread And Salt
Pride That Licks The Dust
Eat Breakfast Three Times A Day
Ye Diners-Out From Whom We Guard Our Spoons
Have We Eaten On The Insane Root
The Proof Of The Pudding Is In The Eating
What In Hell Have I Done To Deserve All These Kittens
The Worm That Hath Eat Of A King
Chapter 41 - The War Situation Has Developed Not Necessarily to Japan's Advantage
And When the Bad Folks All Get Together at Night
You Know They All Call Big Jim Boss . . . Just Because . . .
But Down Home They Call Me Slim
And It May Sound Funny, But I Come To Get My Money Back
Well a Hush Fell Over the Pool Room
Jimmy Come Boppin' In Off the Street
Chapter 42 - The Price That Life Exacts
Courage Is Saying 'No' One More Time
Those Who Place Decency Above Courage
Courage Tastes Of Blood
Their Mastiffs Of Unmatchable Courage
My Little Spark Of Courage Dies
Deus Ex Machinations
Love Comforteth, Like Sunshine After Rain
A Crown Is Merely A Hat That Lets The Rain In
A Wolf In The Fold, Rain On Ripe Corn
The Winter Is Past, The Rain Over And Gone
It Is Neither Shaken By Winds, Nor Ever Wet With Rain
Still Falls The Rain - Dark As The World Of Man
Chapter 43 - Sturm und Drang signifying . . . nothing
In restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone,
'neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night and touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never shared
And no one dared disturb the sound of silence.
Fools said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows.
Chapter 44 - Sturm und Drang signifying . . . nothing Denouement
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out it's warning, in the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence
Chapter 45 - Massaging the Situation
The Year's At The Spring
And Day's At The Morn
Morning's At Seven
The Hill-side's Dew Pearled
The Lark's On The Wing
The Snail's On The Thorn
God's In His Heaven -
All's Right With The World
Chapter 46 - Disenthralled From Inadequate Dogmas
The Truth Can STAY Out There
Fire Burn And Cauldron Bubble
The Magnificat Is Not A Feline
Trust Is Stronger Than Friction
The Cat Can Be Alive, Dead, Or Bloody Furious
Next Step, No Illusions
Chapter 47 - When Free Is The Severest Price
We Are One And Indivisible
Not Recompense, But A Love Gift
It Does Not Grow As You Wish
Simplicity May Veil A Subtle Complexity
Lonely Roads, Long And Winding
Jacob And The Nightingale
I Cannot Grasp Why You Care
Acceptance Rather Than Understanding
On Doubtless Wings
Chapter 48 - They're Sharing a Drink They Call Loneliness, but It's Better than Drinking Alone
France is Alone, God is Alone
A Favorite Has No Friends
She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
Something to Live For, Great Enough To Die For
Chapter 49 - Whether you can hear it or not, the Universe is laughing at you
Strive At All Times To Bend, Fold, Spindle, And Mutilate
Know Yourself, If You Need Help, Call The FBI.
You Are A Fluke Of The Universe, You Have No Right To Be Here
Be At Peace With Your God, Whatever You Conceive It To Be
Let Not The Sands Of Time Get In Your Lunch
Chapter 50 - Big Iron
It Was Early in the Morning When He Rode into the Town
He Came Riding from the South Side Slowly Lookin' All Around
He's an Outlaw Loose and Running Came the Whisper from Each Lip
And He's Here to Do Some Business with the Big Iron on His Hip
In this Town There Lived an Outlaw by the Name of Texas Red
Many Men Had Tried to Take Him and That Many Men Were Dead
He Was Vicious and a Killer Though a Youth of Twenty-Four
And the Notches on His Pistol Numbered One An' Nineteen More
Now the Stranger Started Talking Made it Plain to Folks Around
Was an Arizona Ranger Wouldn't Be Too Long in Town
He Came Here to Take an Outlaw Back Alive or Maybe Dead
And He Said it Didn't Matter He Was after Texas Red
The Morning Passed So Quickly it Was Time for Them to Meet
It Was Twenty past Eleven When They Walked out in the Street
Folks Were Watching from the Windows Everybody Held Their Breath
They Knew this Handsome Ranger Was about to Meet His Death
There Was Forty Feet Between Them When They Stopped to Make Their Play
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red Had Not Cleared Leather 'Fore a Bullet Fairly Ripped
And the Ranger's Aim Was Deadly with the Big Iron on His Hip
It Was over in a Moment and the Folks Had Gathered Round
There Before Them Lay the Body of the Outlaw on the Ground
Chapter 51 - Familial Relations
You Can Choose Your Friends
You Can't Choose Your Relatives
Home Where They Must Take You In
Blood Is Thicker Than Water
What a Marvelous Place To Drop Ones Mother-In-Law
Chapter 52 - Filthy Gaijin
Mislike Me Not For My Complexion
The Hate of Those Ye Guard
Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Evil Be To Him Who Evil Thinks)
I Do Begin To Have Bloody Thoughts
I Am Free Of All Prejudice
Chapter 53 - Dimm'd Fereigners
I Hate Everyone Equally
What Isn't Part Of Ourselves Doesn't Disturb Us
A Change of Nuisances
A Hero To His Valet
Treachery Is All Their Trust
Chasing Magic
Chapter 54 - Eagles Grow From Eggs
Wise Man Said Just Find Your Place, In The Eye Of The Storm
Seek The Roses Along The Way
Just Beware Of The Thorns
Wise Man Said Just Raise Your Hand, and Reach Out For The Spell
Find The Door To The Promised Land
Just Believe In Yourself
Hear This Voice From Deep Inside, It's The Call of Your Heart
Close Your Eyes And Your Will Find
The Passage Out Of The Dark
Chapter 55 - Let the Ladies Be Heard From
In conversation she spoke just like a baroness
To absolutely drive you wild, wild
Then momentarily out of action, temporarily out of gas
Drop of a hat she's as willing as playful as a pussy cat
Recommended at the price, insatiable an appetite
Then again incidentally if you're that way inclined
Perfume came naturally from Paris, for cars she couldn't care less
To avoid complications, she never kept the same address
Fastidious and precise
Met a man from China, went down to Geisha Minah
She's all out to get you
Chapter 56 - One Throw of The Dice
Jacks Or Better
Hole Cards
Call Or Raise
Wild Cards