Table of Contents
Introduction: The Vision of Ezekiel and the Films of Stanley Kubrick 1
Chapter 1 Miracles and Signs
I Recognition to Infinity 22
II The Gravity Suspension Miracle 25
III The Perfect-Fitting Clothes Miracle 29
IV The Fried Noodles Miracle 31
V The Miracle of the Materialized Key 33
VI The Mockingbird Sign 34
W The Jellyfish Sign 37
VIII Road Trip #1: The Story of Virgil 43
IX Where God Comes From 48
X The Pedestrian Sublime 53
XI A Web of Meandering Connections 56
XII Keats and Kauffman 58
Chapter 2 Beginnings
I Are We Being Hustled by God? 64
II Dumb Luck Versus Intelligent Design 68
III Claymation 74
Chapter 3 Getting Stuck and Unstuck
I The Lamb Soup of Xinjiang 82
II Renunciation 84
III Nonlinear Time Is Rife with Messiahs 87
IV Depressive Realism 90
V Theory of Mind 92
VI Entification 100
VII Famous Poems Made Up of One Enormous Word 106
Chapter 4 Beginning Again
I Chaos and Complexity Theory 113
II Finding Your Theme Music 125
III Poetics and Autopoietics 132
Chapter 5 Ending and Returning
I Road Trip with(out) Professor Lee 145
II Waking Up in Beijing 151
III Still Knitting 159
IV Road Trip #3: An Answer for Thad 165
Acknowledgements 184
References 185
