Cosmic cow / Sam Eisenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstein, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham)

Series:

El-e-phant ; 56.

El-e-phant ; 56

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

513 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer, 2003.

Summary:

"Cosmic Cow "is, on the surface, the story of Sam and his journey taken -under the directions of his then 15-year-old wife, Judy. His journey to Tierra del Fuego and New York ends, ultimately, in San Francisco, where Judy is committed to a mental institution.

Superficially, Sam's journey is a standard quest, thwarted by his lover's madness. But his "real" journey -- a maze of internal perceptions with surrogates of himself and Judy at every turn -- is an exploration of how we are sometimes animated by the identities of others. In this work, Eisenstein struggles with a concept of "twins" or "duplicates" on a metaphysical and epistemological level.

Author of "The Inner Garden, Price of Admission "and "Rectification of Eros," Sam Eisenstein lives and teaches in Pasadena, California.

Contents:

1. Sheik and Shiksa 15

2. My owned childhood 18

3. Settled 21

4. Singles no more 24

5. Love is a joke 27

6. The little men 31

7. Mushing to the south-end 35

8. Crimes of Commisure 38

9. Twilight 40

10. Twin Content 43

11. Scapegoat 44

12. Supernumerary 46

13. Ouroboros 48

14. Scurrility 51

15. Snatch 52

16. More plop 55

17. Parings 58

18. Bowery night 61

19. Stumble 64

20. Bored fjord 66

21. Bunnies 67

22. Die Kunst der Kastraten 70

23. Officiation 72

24. Squiggles 75

25. Aneurysm 76

26. Lucidity 79

27. Crankiness 81

28. Turtles 84

29. Hey, Jude 85

30. Torpid 88

31. Entwined 91

32. La-di-da 94

33. Time, time, o 96

34. Dog prick 99

35. "The nature of god is a circle of which the center is everywhere, the circumference nowhere." 101

36. Amiable 103

37. Caesura 106

38. Anthropophagous 110

39. Cloister and hearth 111

40. Mistuh Kurtz, he dead 114

41. Esprit de jeu 116

42. Nevertheless 119

43. Leads us upward 122

44. Lures to perfection 124

45. Cosmic Cow 128

46. Garbage 132

47. For love of god and Amontillado 136

48. Pictionary 139

49. Merciless bonobo 141

50. The final man eats a condemned meal 147

51. Ego Dominus Tuus 150

52. The Doldrums 156

53. Toilets for tourists 160

54. Morrigan, Fata Morgana, Morgan La Fee 164

55. Comic Cuts 167

56. Giants in the Earth 172

57. Ganglia 176

58. The God Who Weeps 181

59. Euhemerus 185

60. Gradual Dazzle 188

61. Bad Faith O'erpower'd by Love 191

62. Rasa is compassion and creative imagination 194

63. Exchange of Genes 198

64. Ganesh 202

65. Dis, Pluto, Hades 205

66. The Door is Shut 209

67. Heavenly Servant: The Ayatollah 213

68. Artifice of Eternity 216

69. Open Bogs 219

70. The annihilation of the ogres 222

71. Abridging the Gap 226

72. Oneiromancy 231

73. A beached quilt 234

74. Generation of vipers 237

75. Charm, smiling 240

76. Eye of the heart 243

77. Apis and essence 246

78. Cassandra in clogs 250

79. Labor is blossoming 255

80. En Sof/The Limitless 259

81. Panspermia 262

82. Anterior cingulate sulcis 266

83. Rape of the lock 269

84. Past times 273

85. Manhood 276

86. The lady's dressing room 278

87. Wisdom of the body 281

88. Lifting the veil 284

89. II triunfo dell'Amore e dell'Imaginazione 287

90. La sovrapposizione dei mandolini 290

91. Comforted that I am dust 292

92. Enduring questions 294

93. The Divine Invasion 296

94. Beside Helper/Paraklein 298

95. Burnt Whole 300

96. Rotational invariants 303

97. Kyrie Matinee 306

98. Opsomanes/opsophagos 310

99. La verite sera a nu 314

100. The ship will explode 317

101. Dromomania 320

102. Wholeness and the implicate order 324

103. Der tod und das madchen 328

104. Love/death 332

105. Schrodinger's kitten 338

106. Modo/Mahu 343

107. The winding stair 346

108. Anima mundi 348

109. Lapis lazuli 351

110. The cicus animals' desertion 356

111. Kalfakter 359

112. Abaissement du niveau mental 363

113. La farce du drapier 369

114. Les couloirs mysterieux 371

115. Kakia 374

116. Tohou/Bohou 377

117. The winding stair 380

118. Nursat fateh ali khan 384

119. The black trunk of the pharaoh 386

120. Infinitudes 390

121. Solipsistic 393

122. Aa 396

123. Je suis un dieu faible 400

124. Hermanubis, get serious 403

126. Nag eh an-me un dez beteg dor ma mestres 405

127. Antimony/antimony 408

128. Aporia 412

129. Dual in the sun 416

130. Ha nivrah ha rishon 419

131. Cledonomancy 421

132. Zahzahot 424

133. Superliminal 428

134. Djemma el fna 430

135. The king and the corpse 432

136. Tollund man 438

137. Fortiter pecca! 444

138. Curoi Mac Daire 448

139. Homo Ludens 452

140. Touch 'n go 456

141. Drover Ding Dong's sheep 459

142. Thaumatopoeida processionea 462

143. Trockne blumen 467

144. S'io dredesse che mia risposta fosse 472

145. Anahatanada 475

146. Homecoming 478

147. Theogony 480

148. Le-Hev-Hev, alias Chumbaba 483

149. Tragodoi 485

150. Frotteur 490

151. Bardo Thotrol 494

152. Entelechy 498

153. Gdung, Ring-Bsrel, Sku-Gzug 500

154. Auf ein Faulbett legen 504

155. Apollon Musagete 507

156. Mussolini or Missolonghi? 512.

Notes:

A novel.

ISBN:

193124345X :

OCLC:

54039862