Searching for George's Garden
CHAPTER TITLES
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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
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~Robert G. Ingersoll
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PART ONE
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…The earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the sun, but only once every 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds with respect to the stars – the safekeepers of lost time, dispensers of its return.
Chapter 1: 23:56:04
Chapter 2: The Replacements
Chapter 3: Shitty Day in Shitville
Chapter 4: States of Motion
Chapter 5: Lost Objects
Chapter 6: Everywhere, But Not Here
Chapter 7: Seven Pines
Chapter 8: Fire Night.
Chapter 9: The Story of Hands
Chapter 10: Where Are the Giants Now?
Chapter 11: Staring Into the Sun
Chapter 12: The Foundation
PART TWO
A given star sets about four minutes earlier each night – over a month, this equals two hours. In winter this means that we are looking at stars that during the summer were in our daytime sky, overwhelmed by the glare of the sun.
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Chapter 13: The Stars of Summer
Chapter 14: Reassembling
Chapter 15: Pyramus and Thisbe
Chapter 16: The Seeds
Chapter 17: The Ache
Chapter 18: Sons and Daughters
Chapter 19: Family
Chapter 20: Hearts
Chapter 21: The Constant
Chapter 22: The Safe Place
Chapter 23: Wood
Chapter 24: Such Beasts Are No More
Chapter 25: Extraordinary Time
Chapter 26: The Fall of Mars
Chapter 27: The Cage
Chapter 28: Four Letters, So Easy To Say
Chapter 29: Gone
Chapter 30: Qxf4 and D4
PART THREE
The Western Interior Sea existed in the late Cretaceous, early Paleogenic period, when the earliest birds could be found with their newly-feathered wings and toothy beaks. In the early Cretaceous epoch, Mississippi was almost entirely under water. It was referred to as the Mississippi embayment.
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Chapter 31: George’s Garden
Chapter 32: The Interior Sea
Chapter 33: The Book of Daniel
Chapter 34: The Reckoning
Chapter 35: Growth
Chapter 36: 3:56
Epilog: Adeline’s Psalm for Life
