Searching for George's Garden
CHAPTER TITLES
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!
~Robert G. Ingersoll
PART ONE
…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.
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.
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