Partial Memories电子书

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Dedication

Preface

Epigraph

Body matter

Chapter One 1917–1936

My Parents

Boarding School 1928

Moonlight Skiing 1931

Gerda’s Fracture 1931

Crossing the Rubicon 1932

Marlene Dietrich 1933

Old Duke Clary 1933

Final Exams 1935

Loch Ness 1935

Academic Disillusionment 1936

Olympic Games and the Cool, Blue Eyes of Lea 1936

Lesson from Hofmannsthal 1936

Loss of a Friend 1936

Chapter Two 1937–1938

Escape to Australia 1937

Skiing in the Antipodes 1937

Sharks and Other Perils 1937

New Prospects 1937

Leaving Australia 1938

On the Road to Paris 1938

Deciding on Dublin 1938

Chapter Three 1939–1946

Dublin Winter 1939

Meeting Erskine 1939

The Glenavys 1939

From Joyce to Vico and Berkeley 1939

Fortunate Accidents 1939

Reflection on Theories 1939

David Robinson 1940

Briscoe’s Brother 1940

The Fall of Paris 1940

Café Society 1941

Paddy Perrot 1941

The Chisler 1942

Schrödinger 1942

Mushrooms 1942

Molly O’Rourke 1940

Doubles Player 1945

Leaving Ireland 1946

Chapter Four 1947–1958

First Visit to Meran 1947

Two Break-downs and a Horrible Shock 1947

Filming in Tuscany 1947

Val di Sogno 1947

Breitmoos and the Royal Engineers 1948

The Cybernetics of Snow Drifts 1948

A First Steady Job 1949

The Passion for Snow 1950

Salzburg 1950

Bérénice 1953

Bernard Berenson 1953

Marilyn Monroe 1953

Discord 1954

Etruscan Fantasy 1954

Farewell to my Father 1955

Ischia 1956

The Montesi Mystery 1957

Avalanche 1957

Federico Fellini 1958

Chapter Five 1959–1966

The First Research Contract 1959

A Poet’s Daughter 1959

Dottore and Mehitabel 1959

Taxes in Milan 1959

Closed Houses 1961

Our Manual Computer 1962

First Taste of America 1963

Condolences 1964

The Wiener Memorial Meeting 1965

Across the Atlantic 1966

Chapter Six 1967–1972

Settling on the Oconee River 1967

Work Ethic 1967

Exploring the South 1968

End of a Life 1969

Skunk 1969

Gripsholm and Upsala 1969

The Moon Landing 1969

Further Drastic Changes 1969

Learning about Insurance 1970

Lana, the Almost Literate Chimp 1970

Thoughts about Reason 1970

Indiscretions about Saints 1971

Teaching Psychology 1972

Chapter Seven 1973–2009

Language and Thought 1973

Our Lady of the Deep Snow 1973

Getting US Citizenship 1974

Reflections on Time and Space 1978

Faux Pas 1980

Sandra 1992

Heinz von Foerster 2002

Durrell on Love 2005

A Dream about Numbers 2006

Paul Watzlawick 2007

Mountain Magic 2008

Envoy 2009

Afterword

Back matter

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