WHAT MUST HUMANITY LEARN ABOUT ITSELF TO SURVIVE?

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This book is for my teachers at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop:

Stephen Becker

Vance Bourjaily

Ray Carver

John Cheever

Stanley Elkin

William Price Fox

John Leggett

Also for

John Brunner

Dos Passos, pro forma

The quotation from the I Ching in Chapter Two is taken from the James Legge translation, copyright © 1973 by Causeway Books.