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:"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein]
 
:"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein]
  
a: 379; b: 420 - '''Venusbergs'''<br />
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Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29 Venus], the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user Tannhäuser] spent a year there worshipping Venus.
 
Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29 Venus], the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user Tannhäuser] spent a year there worshipping Venus.
  
 
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a: 368; b: 407 - the field-of-two Rachel and Profane had set up
"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - Albert Einstein
a: 379; b: 420 - the Venusbergs

Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of Venus, the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight Tannhäuser spent a year there worshipping Venus.


Chapter 1
In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir
9/1
Chapter 2
The Whole Sick Crew
44/39
Chapter 3
In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations
61/59
Chapter 4
In which Esther gets a nose job
95/97
Chapter 5
In which Stencil nearly goes West with an alligator
111/115
Chapter 6
In which Profane returns to street level
134/141
Chapter 7
She hangs on the western wall
152/161
Chapter 8
In which Rachel gets her yo-yo back, Roony sings a song, and Stencil calls on Bloody Chiclitz
213/229
Chapter 9
Mondaugen's story
229/247
Chapter 10
In which various sets of young people get together
280/305
Chapter 11
Confessions of Fausto Maijstral
304/333
Chapter 12
In which things are not so amusing
347/385
Chapter 13
In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind
367/407
Chapter 14
V. in love
393/437
Chapter 15
Sahha
415/461
Chapter 16
Valletta
424/471
Epilogue, 1919
456/507