Primary symbols -- The future strikes -- Life on the border -- Russian roulette -- First travels -- A salmon tea -- Journey back -- A discovery -- Return -- Africa revisited -- The end of the party -- Minty's day -- The innocent -- A marriage proposal -- The prison cell -- The heart of the matter -- The third man -- The destructors -- A small affair -- a shocking accident -- The signing-up of 59200/5 -- The blessing -- Cheap in August -- Travel tips from aunt Augusta -- The wedding reception -- Monsignor quixote and sancho on doubt -- The lesson of the master -- From feathers to iron -- Rider haggard's secret -- Francois Mauriac -- The redemption of Mr. Joyboy -- For Madox Ford -- Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian Inferno -- "Sore bones; much headache" John Gerard -- The novelist and the short story -- Two statments on commitment -- Convenience and morality -- The last pope -- Colette's funceral rites -- Unholy Waugh -- A superstition to live by -- Slide into barbarism -- Letter to a West German friend -- The Daniel-Sinyavsky trial -- Shame of the Catholics, shame of the English -- What's wrong with the gospels? -- A misguided pope -- The great spectacular -- The meeting in the Kremlin -- The virture of disloyalty