Every living thing: the great and deadly race to know all life

Introduction. Savants

Prelude. The mask and the veil

Part I. The great chain of being

Of the Linden tree

A course in starvation

The salt-keeper's son

Vegetable lambs and barnacle trees

Several bridegrooms, several brides

The greater gift of patience

Now in blame, now in honor

The seven-headed hydra of Hamburg

An abridgment of the world entire

Loathsome harlotry

The quarrel of the universals

Part II. This prodigious multitude.

Goldfish for the queen

Covering myself in dust and ashes

The only prize available

Durable and even eternal

Baobab-zu-zu

So many new and unknown parts

Governed by laws, governed by whim

A general prototype

Breaking the lens

My cold years

The price of time

Part III. God's registrar

Germinal, floreal, thermidor, messidor

Transformism and castastrophism

Platypus

Laughably like mine

The rhymes of the universe

Most human of humans

A large web or rather a network.

Introduction. Savants

Prelude : The mask and the veil

Part I. The great chain of being. Of the linden tree

A course in starvation

The salt-keeper's son

Vegetable lambs and barnacle trees

Several bridegrooms, several brides

The greater gift of patience

Now in blame, now in honor

The seven-headed hydra of Hamburg

An abridgment of the world entire

Loathsome harlotry

The quarrel of the universals

Part II. This prodigious multitude. Goldfish for the queen

Covering myself in dust and ashes

The only prize available

Durable and even eternal

Baobab-zu-zu

So many new and unknown parts

Governed by laws, governed by whim

A general prototype

Breaking the lens

My cold years

The price of time

Part III. God's registrar. Germinal, Floreal, Thermidor, Messidor

Transformism and catastrophism

Platypus

Laughably like mine

The rhymes of the universe

Most human of humans

A large web or rather a network.