I. Love: Modern love -- Ike and Nina -- Sorry fugu -- Without a hero -- Heart of a champion -- Carnal knowledge -- Acts of god -- Hopes rise -- Descent of man -- Caviar -- All shook up -- I dated Jane Austen --Caye -- Little fur people -- John Barleycorn lives -- The hat -- Whales weep -- A women's restaurant -- Thawing out -- Back in the Eocene -- Sitting on top of the world -- If the river was whiskey -- Juliana cloth -- II. Death: Big game -- Greasy lake -- Peace of mind -- King bee -- Sinking house -- The Devil and Irv Cherniske -- The human fly -- On for the long haul -- The 100 faces of death, volume IV -- Little America -- Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail -- The hit man -- Not a leg to stand on -- Green Hell -- Me cago en la leche (Robert Jordan in Nicaragua) -- The ape lady in retirement -- De rerum natura -- The extinction tales -- The fog man -- Drowning -- Rara avis -- The overcoat II -- Mexico -- III. And everything in between: Beat -- Hard sell -- The miracle at Ballinspittle -- Top of the food chain -- The Hector Quesadilla story -- We are Norsemen -- The champ -- Bloodfall -- Rupert Beersley and the beggar master of Sivana-Hoota -- The New Moon Party -- The second swimming -- Dada -- Two ships -- The little chill -- A bird in hand -- The Arctic explorer -- Rapture of the deep -- 56-0 -- The big garage -- Zapatos -- Respect -- Filthy with things.