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T: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Third Stage of her affair with Ambrose Mensch. Her latter-day relations with André Castine.

I: Lady Amherst to the Author.More trouble at Marshyhope. Her relations with the late Harrison Mack, Jr., or “George III.”

M: Lady Amherst to the Author.Three miracles in three days. Ambrose’s adventures with the film company. The Fourth Stage of their affair begins.

E: Lady Amherst to the Author.Her introduction to the Menschhaus.

E: Lady Amherst to the Author.Not pregnant. The “prenatal” letters of A. B. Cook IV.

S: Todd Andrews to his father.His life’s recycling. Jane Mack’s visit and confession. 10 R.

I: Jacob Horner to the Author.Declining to rewalk to the end of the road.

L: A. B. Cook IV to his unborn child.His own history to the present writing: the French Revolution, Joel Barlow in Algiers, “Consuelo del Consulado,” Burr’s Conspiracy, Tecumseh’s Indian confederacy. The Pattern.

S: Jerome Bray to Drew Mack.LILYVAC’s LEAFY ANAGRAM.

H: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly.A reflection upon History. His defeat by the Director at Ocean City: an Unwritable Sequence. Magda celebrates a certain anniversary.

S: The Author to Jacob Horner.The story of a story called What I Did Until the Doctor Came.

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P: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Fourth Stage of her affair. She calls on A. B. Cook VI in Chautaugua. Ambrose’s Perseus project, and a proposition.

I: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Fourth Stage continues. Filmmaking at Niagara Falls and Old Fort Erie. Dismaying encounters at the Remobilization Farm.

S: Lady Amherst to the Author.Her conversation with “Monsieur Casteene.” A fiasco on Chautaugua Lake. A Visit to Lily Dale, N.Y., Spiritualist Capital of America.

T: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Marshyhope Commencement debacle, and its consequences.

O: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Fourth Stage concludes; the Fifth begins. Magda’s confession. The Gadfly fiasco reenacted: an Unfilmable Sequence.

E: Todd Andrews to his father.Further evidence that his life is recycling: 11 R.

T: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. Der Wiedertraum under way.

L: A. B. Cook VI to the Author.Eagerly accepting the Author’s invitation. The Cook/Burlingame lineage between Andrew Cook IV and himself. The Welland Canal Plot.

E: Jerome Bray to his parents and foster parents.His betrayal by Merope Bernstein. His revenge and despair.

I: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly.Anniversary of the bees’ descent. Encounters with Jacob Horner and Marsha Blank. He identifies his condition with Perseus’s, and despairs.