Preface
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Part1 Silence and Nothingness
Chapter1 The Concept of Silence / Chapter2 The Techniques of Silence / Chapter3 Communication of Silence / Chapter4 Expression by Negation / Chapter5 Negative Existences / Chapter6 Nothingness
Part2 The Science of the Grave
Chapter7 Sight / Chapter8 Optical Instruments and "Compound Vision" / Chapter9 Poetry of Science / Chapter10 Geology
Notes
Appendix1
Appendix2
Appendix3
Appendix4
Works Cited
Index of First Lines to Poems