Prologue: On Parables

I

• An Imperial Message
• Pekin and the Emperor
• The News of the Building of the Wall: A Fragment
• The Great Wall and the Tower of Babel

II

• Paradise
• The Tower of Babel
• The Pit of Babel
• The City Coat of Arms
• Abraham
• Mount Sinai
• The Building of the Temple
• The Animal in the Synagogue
• Before the Law
• The Watchman
• The Coming of the Messiah

III

• Prometheus
• Poseidon
• The Silence of the Sirens
• The Sirens
• Leopards in the Temple
• Alexander the Great
• Diogenes
• The New Attorney

IV

• The Building of a City
• The Imperial Colonel
• The Emperor
• In the Caravansary
• The Cell
• The Invention of the Devil
• The Savages
• The Hunter Gracchus
• The Hunter Gracchus: A Fragment
• The Vulture
• The Green Dragon
• The Tiger
• The Problem of Our Laws
• The Refusal
• Couriers
• A Chinese Puzzle
• The Truth About Sancho Panza
• The Test
• Robinson Crusoe
• The Spring
• The Hunger Strike
• My Destination

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