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| I. | THE RED AND BLACK AND GOLD STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY ON THE CHANGING MAP OF THE WORLD |
| II. | I EXPLORE THE POTASH MINES OF STASSFURT AND FIND A DIARY IN A DEAD MAN'S POCKET |
| III. | IN A BLACK UTOPIA THE BLOND BROOD BREEDS AND SWARMS |
| IV. | I GO PLEASURING ON THE LEVEL OF FREE WOMEN AND DRINK SYNTHETIC BEER |
| V. | I AM DRAFTED FOR PATERNITY AND MAKE EXTRAORDINARY PETITION TO THE CHIEF OF THE EUGENIC STAFF |
| VI. | IN WHICH I LEARN THAT COMPETITION IS STILL THE LIFE OF THE OLDEST TRADE IN THE WORLD |
| VII. | THE SUN SHINES UPON A KING AND A GIRL READS OF THE FALL OF BABYLON |
| VIII. | FINDING THEREIN ONE RIGHTEOUS MAN, I HAVE COMPASSION ON BERLIN |
| IX. | IN WHICH I SALUTE THE STATUE OF GOD, AND A PSYCHIC EXPERT EXPLORES MY BRAIN AND FINDS NOTHING |
| X. | A GODDESS WHO IS SUFFERING FROM OBESITY, AND A BRAVE MAN WHO IS AFRAID OF THE LAW OF AVERAGES |
| XI. | IN WHICH THE TALKING DELEGATE IS ANSWERED BY THE ROYAL VOICE AND I LEARN THAT LABOR KNOWS NOT GOD |
| XII. | THE DIVINE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM THE GREAT GIVE A BENEFIT FOR THE CANINE GARDENS AND PAY TRIBUTE TO THE PIGGERIES |
| XIII. | IN WHICH A WOMAN ACCUSES ME OF MURDER AND I PLACE A RUBY NECKLACE ABOUT HER THROAT |
| XIV. | THE BLACK SPOT IS ERASED FROM THE MAP OF THE WORLD AND THERE IS DANCING IN THE SUNLIGHT ON THE ROOF OF BERLIN |
When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school inwhich one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of theGerman language. As I look back now, in the light of my presentknowledge, I better comprehend the docile humility and carefullynurtured ignorance of this man. In his class rooms he used as a text adescription of German life, taken from the captured submarine. From thisbook he had secured his own conception of a civilization of which hereally knew practically nothing. I recall how we used to ask HerrMeineke if he had actually seen those strange things of which he taughtus. To this he always made answer, "The book is official, man'sobservation errs."
"He can talk it," said my playmates who attended the public schoolswhere all teaching of the language of the outcast natio