Here are the contents, to date, of “The Complete History of Adam Panflick”, a work of memoir-fiction spanning several generations. Its form is inspired by “Tom Jones”, its content, to some extent, by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern.
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The Complete History of Adam Panflick
Stephen C. Rose
BOOK I — PANFLICK ORIGINS, MELCHIZEDEK’S BIRTH AND “ORPHANING”, HIS MEETING OF MILDRED OXLIE, CONDITIONS OF MATRIMONY, BIRTH OF ADAM, HIS CONE SHAPED HEAD
Book One — Chapter Three Martin Weds Calista Briefly, Melchizedek Is Born and Orphaned
Book One — Chapter Four Melchizedek’s Infancy, Exeter and Harvard, How The Dogged One Survived
Book One — Chapter Seven Melchizedek and Mildred Talk for The First Time, Catalogues and Magazines, Ice Broken
Book One — Chapter Eight Melchizedek Moves In, Ground Rules, Mildred Exacts a Pre-Nuptual Pledge
Book One — Chapter Nine Interlude. Millicent Is Almost Trampled, A Simple Wedding
Book One — Chapter Ten Money Matters, A Quixotic First Night in Newport
Book One Chapter Eleven Amor Fati, A Viking Breakfast
Book One — Chapter Thirteen Melchizedek’s Remarkable Progress, The Birth of Our Hero, Adam Panflick’s Cone Shaped Head
BOOK II — COVERING THE YEARS FROM ADAM’S BIRTH UNTIL HIS ENTRANCE INTO SCHOOL, INTRODUCING THE BROADLEY FAMILY, NOTING MELCHIZADEK’S STEADY PROGRESS AND THE PERMUTATIONS OF MILDRED’S LIFE AS AN AESTHETE, WIFE AND MOTHER
Book Two — Chapter One The Nanny Trail, Meeting the Broadleys, Another Million
Book Two — Chapter Three No Body-Mind-Soul Nonsense for Our Hero, A Real Monster, Mildred Develops Some, Melchizedek Fills A Void
Book Two — Chapter Four How Mildred’s “True Love” Morphed into A Family of Five
Book Two — Chapter Five Adam Addresses The World from Sinicock, Mildred’s Wordless Response
Book Two — Chapter Six Mildred and Melchizedek Are Debt Free, The Panflicks Buy A Big Spread in Vermont
Book Two — Chapter Seven Pre-Pre-Pre Pubescent Love, Adam Faced Down By Conspicuous Wealth, One Less Student
Book Two Chapter Eight Adam’s Unusual Puke Experience, Sardines on Long Island, Pickinsboro Doings
Book Two Chapter Nine A Subtle Tea at The Plaza, Adam Consigned to A Long Period of General Misery
Book Two — Chapter Twelve A Parade of Surrogate Parents, The Oxlies Impending Invasion of Pickinsboro, Premonitions of Parousia
BOOK III — CONTAINING ADAM’S PAROUSIA SCHOOL PROBLEMS, STAFFING MATTERS, THE ADVENT OF THE DEMARESTS, THE OXLIE INVASION, RACHEL, RURAL CRIMINALITY, A NEAR FATAL ILLNESS, ADAM’S RADIO PRINCESS, EXILE
Book Three — Chapter One Parousia is a Bust, Adam Is Scarred for Life , Manhattan is Adam’s Oyster
Book Three — Chapter Five Supporting The City Habit, Alco-shock, Religious Awakening
Book Three — Chapter Six Alco-Rush, Adam’s Iago, Valentine’s Day at Miss Harris’s
Book Three — Chapter Eight Mildred’s Rule of Three, Adam’s Confessional Moment, Dead Man
Book Three — Chapter Nine Bully Problems, “Candide” Crisis
Book Three — Chapter Eleven A Question of Authority
Book Three — Chapter Twelve Adam, Hank and Tamara, Adam and Rachel, Endings
BOOK IV — ADAM ENTERS HIS TEENS, HE EXPLORES SEX WITH APPROVAL, A YEAR AT PAROUSIA NORTH, HE DISCOVERS THE POWER OF THE PEN, FOUR YEARS AT PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY, GIRLS, DRIVE-INS, CHALLENGES, TRAVELS, CONFLICTS, PANFLICK ON THE CONTINENT, BIBLICAL INTERVENTION, A DECISION THAT WILL RESONATE FOREVER
Book Four — Chapter One Arrival at Parousia-North, Political Success, Love Sighing, A New Companion
Book Four — Chapter Four Exeter, Cynics and Responsibles, Politics, Salty, Knee Syndrome, Academics
BOOK FIVE — COLLEGE AS HEAVEN AND HELL, NADIA, EUROPE, SOPHOMORE FRATERNTIES ONE, SCHOLAR, THE REVEREND JAMES H. ROBINSON, O-AT-KA, RABBIT HOLLOW, SAINT GANDOLPH HALL, LOVE LOST, FRATERNITIES TWO, THE COFFINS, A VISIT TO NORBERT
Book Five — Chapter Two Nadia, European Adventures, Adam Experiences Rushing at Williams College
Book Five — Chapter Five The Reverend James H. Robinson, Adam Has A Dream
Book Five — Chapter Six Catching Up With Everyone, Adam Gets A Date at Bennington
Book Five — Chapter Eight Prescience, Camp Rabbit Hollow, Boyd, Ellie Rounds
Book Five — Chapter Nine Return to Williams, The Beginnings of a Worldview, Portia
Book Five — Chapter Ten Harold, Panflickian Mysticism, Adam Paints
Book Five — Chapter Twelve Norbert Part One
Book Five — Chapter Thirteen Norbert Part Two
BOOK SIX — RETURN TO NEW YORK, PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE, THE SEMINARY, AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER, SHRINK, SPASM, ADAM AND GANYA, ENGAGEMENT, SUMMER DANCES, MARRIAGE, BABY, THEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL, DON BENEDICT, DOROTHY DAY, NASHVILLE
