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Hast du Verstand und ein Herz, so zeige nur eines von beiden, Beides verdammen sie dir, zeigest du beides zugleich. – Friedrich Hölderlin, ‘Guter Rath’, 1797

Contents Preface Acknowledgements ix xi Anecdote A Taste of Bitter Almonds 3 Bodies The Plastinator 6 Cynicism Knock! Knock! 17 Depression A Conspiracy of Good Intentions 33 Ethics Insomnia (in the Bed of Being) 40 Funerals An American Book of the Dead 49 Galen Crise de Foie 54 Happiness The Moral Life of Happiness 61 Integrity An Empty Plot 69 Journeys Chekhov Goes to Sakhalin 79 Kafka Uncle Siegfried 97 Language Is There Life on Earth? 118 Mouth Tell Me about Teeth 131 Nose Hygiene of the Soul 136 Obit The Importance of Being an Agoraphobe 146 Posture The Human Position Qi Emergent Properties Resilience A Mining Town in Australia Science (envy) Lamplighters and Lucefactors Translating Machine Made of Words Upas The Poison Tree Vertigo Stendhal’s Syndrome Weightlessness The War of Eye and Ear X-rays Under the Magic Mountain 151 164 172 186 200 208 218 226 236 Yellow Fever The Life and Times of Ernst Weiss 252 (meta-)Zoology Parasites 260 Endnotes Index of Names 270 285

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Hast du Verstand und ein Herz, so zeige nur eines von beiden, Beides verdammen sie dir, zeigest du beides zugleich.

– Friedrich Hölderlin, ‘Guter Rath’, 1797

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