Selections from the Allen notebooks -- Examining psychic phenomena -- Guide to some of the lesser ballets -- Scrolls -- Lovborg's women considered -- Whore of Mensa -- Death (a play) -- Early essays -- Brief, yet helpful, guide to civil disobedience -- Match wits with Inspector Ford -- Irish genius -- God (a play) -- Fabulous tales and mythical beasts -- But soft...real soft -- If the impressionists had been dentists -- No kaddish for Weinstein -- Fine times: an oral memoir -- Slang origins