** Part 1 (1945–1969)

*** Childhood

*** How I became an atheist

*** Shimer College and first independent adventures

*** Berkeley in the sixties

*** Kenneth Rexroth

*** How I evaded the draft

*** How I became an anarchist

** Part 2 (1969–1977)

*** How I became a situationist

*** 1044

*** Contradiction

*** A fresh start

*** The “Notice” group

*** The breaking of a fellowship

** Part 3 (1977–1997)

*** Japan and Hong Kong

*** The SI Anthology

*** Rock climbing

*** Rexroth again

*** Zen practice

*** Reading, writing, translating and music

*** How this book came to be