Index to The Books of NAME_1

The Books
The First Book
The Sixth Book
The Seventh Book
The Fourteenth Book

The Calypsos
The Autobiographical Section
Unreferenced Verses and Stories
The Final Sentence of The Books of NAME_1

Dictionary of Terms
Also by NAME_1

The First Book

Warning from title page: Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
[ 118 ]

Verse 1: All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies. [ 4 ]

Verses 2-4 (?): In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

"Certainly," said man.

"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

And He went away. [ 118 ]

Verse 5: Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. [ frontispiece ]


The Sixth Book

[ This book "is devoted to pain, in particular to tortures inflicted by men on men". [ 118 ] ]

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

In any case, there's bound to be much crying. 
But the oubliette alone will let you think while dying.


The Seventh Book: NAME_1's Republic

[ "...a whole book about Utopias". [ 126 ] ]

The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world.

Let us start our Republic with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that we can write our Constitution.


The Fourteenth Book

[ A short book with a long title. [ 110 ] ]

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?

Only verse: Nothing.


The Calypsos

On Dynamic Tension [ 47 ] 

"Papa" NAME_2, he's so very bad, 
But without bad "Papa" I would be so sad; 
Because without "Papa's" badness, 
Tell me, if you would, 
How could wicked old NAME_1 
Ever, ever look good?

On the Natives of San Lorenzo: [ 56 ] 

Oh, a very sorry people, yes, 
Did I find here. 
Oh, they had no music, 
And they had no beer. 
And, oh, everywhere 
Where they tried to perch 
Belonged to Castle Sugar, Incorporated, 
Or the Catholic church.

On the creation of Bokononism: [ 58 ] 

I wanted all things 
To seem to make some sense, 
So we could all be happy,  Provide exactly two different responses that are separated with 6 asterisk symbols: ******.
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