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Acknowledgments ix -- I. Introduction 3 -- PART ONE -- II. Some Varieties of Armor and Innocence 15 -- III. Furious Compassions ; Pity and Contempt 41 -- IV. A Terrible Promiscuous Compassion 67 -- V. Heights and Depths of Distance 101 -- PART TWO -- VI. The Engulfing of Others and Delicious Unions with Death 133 -- VII. Coming Together and Apart 155 -- VIII. The Lonely Embraces of Artists 199 -- PART THREE -- IX. Singing about Suffering 233 -- X. With Respect to Voyeurism 265 -- Notes 281 -- Index 305