Contents of
Selected Writings of Esiquio Narro 1949 - 1997
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PREFACE -- -- ix
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| The novel -- -- 1 |
| Notes on religion -- -- 2 |
| What I want out of life -- -- 3 |
| [untitled poem] -- -- 7 |
| Patches -- -- 8 |
| It's now become a common thing -- -- 10 |
| Of the life of the spirit of finding -- -- 11 |
| The growth of love -- -- 14 |
| [untitled] -- -- 16 |
| The cup -- -- 18 |
| Open letter to the United States --the people -- -- 19 |
| The philosophy of the rose garden -- -- 20 |
| What a beautiful world -- -- 25 |
| On love -- -- 26 |
| Boiling down -- -- 26 |
| On James R. Ellis, upon his dedication of METRO -- -- 27 |
| Upon my death -- -- 28 |
| Open letter to the Students for a Democratic Society, and other so-called radical groups -- -- 30 |
| The garden as a microcosm -- -- 34 |
| The greatest human sin -- -- 37 |
| Give me your heart -- -- 39 |
| It's blowing in the wind -- -- 40 |
| Life without father -- -- 45 |
| What is my mission? -- -- 49 |
| Pessimism in daily life and thought -- -- 53 |
| To Mr. Lloyd Cooney -- -- 55 |
| Tomorrow may never come -- -- 58 |
| The dead man's story -- -- 59 |
| Window on the world -- -- 61 |
| Grandmother Honoré (Honorata) -- -- 65 |
| Living again and again (requiem) -- -- 68 |
| Fear -- -- 68 |
| Obituary for myself -- -- 72 |
| Depression -- -- 74 |
| Writing -- -- 75 |
| Mercy -- -- 76 |
| For better or for worse -- -- 76 |
| My ambition -- -- 79 |
| The enrichment of life -- -- 80 |
| Irony of fate -- -- 82 |
| The playwright -- -- 85 |
| The art of magnification -- -- 85 |
| Arrival -- -- 87 |
| Writing as therapy -- -- 88 |
| If the weather is bad . . . -- -- 89 |
| What is man? -- -- 91 |
| Getting to know you -- -- 92 |
| The garden -- -- 93 |
| Women -- -- 97 |
| An ear for music -- -- 98 |
| Ulysses and the Odyssey -- -- 100 |
| Between a pearl and a diamond -- -- 102 |
| No magnum opus -- -- 102 |
| Anger -- -- 104 |
| The lioness and the lion -- -- 106 |
| Tännhauser -- -- 107 |
| Totally personal rewards -- -- 109 |
| The mediocracy -- -- 111 |
| [untitled autobiographic musings] -- -- 113 |
| Character and interpersonal interaction -- -- 115 |
| My neighbor -- -- 117 |
| The uses and abuses of things -- -- 118 |
| Late Night America -- -- 120 |
| Apples -- -- 122 |
| The tired one -- -- 123 |
| Note on myself -- -- 126 |
| On literature -- -- 127 |
| Desires -- -- 128 |
| Crevasses and chasms -- -- 129 |
| [Sexual] Feelings -- -- 130 |
| Connections -- -- 132 |
| Attachment -- -- 134 |
| Father Charles Curran -- -- 135 |
| Democracy in decline -- -- 138 |
| Suicide -- -- 139 |
| Profits and crisis -- -- 140 |
| Sexuality as the spoiler -- -- 141 |
| The important and the unimportant -- -- 143 |
| Drifting northward -- -- 143 |
| The purpose of life -- -- 146 |
| The good Samaritan -- -- 148 |
| The reality news -- -- 149 |
| Edmund Burke, on taste -- -- 152 |
| On meditation -- -- 154 |
| Love begins before conception -- -- 155 |
| Death of a writer -- -- 157 |
| Woman -- -- 158 |
| Great cities -- -- 159 |
| [untitled] -- -- 161 |
| The pursuit of pleasure -- -- 162 |
| There is more to life than this --or there must be -- -- 162 |
| The young prophets -- -- 163 |
| Trust -- -- 164 |
| Beyond words -- -- 165 |
| Psychological and physiological need for dancing -- -- 166 |
| Our memory of creation -- -- 167 |
| The care of plants -- -- 168 |
| Thank You, Father -- -- 171 |
| What does God want me to do? -- -- 172 |
| Life at its simplest -- -- 174 |
| Alcoholism -- -- 175 |
| The career that fizzled -- -- 176 |
| Ode to the long-lasting car -- -- 179 |
| The weakness of love -- -- 179 |
| Cloudy day -- -- 180 |
| The disintegration of society -- -- 181 |
| Computers and teachers -- -- 182 |
| Life is bittersweet -- -- 182 |
| Civilization as verbiage -- -- 183 |
The cult of weirdness -- -- 185
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INDEX -- -- 186
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