Prologue: On finitude and infinity
Introduction: The nature of immortality
Belief : We bereave, we believe ; Journey into remoteness ; The valley of astonishment ; Lessons of the teachings ; To sea and hear ; Beneath the gaze of eternity ; Technical interlude: writ in water ; The magical fountain ; Letters upon letters : dividing the invisible ; Almost real ; Let's run into the waves and spring back to life
Magic : Mystifier ; Escapology ; The sorcerer's lair ; Sleights of mind ; Technical interlude: magick, Eros, symbolism ; Transmuting magic into science
Science : Mercurial times ; Preservation's particulars: longevity and longing ; Biological calculus ; It was the future ; Refrigerator heaven ; Secret Santa Barbara ; The Harvard Symposium
Epilogue: Springs eternal.
