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Prologue - The Man with the Looking Glasses - From an Obscene Gerund toa Pas de Deux; Self-Portraits; "Come (Fly, Dance and Waltz with) Us on EqualTerms" - The Whitmanesque Sinatra of Sammy Cahn; The Colours of Ava - TonePoems of Colour and the Painful Measure of Sinatra''s Passions; TheComposition of Celebrity - Sinatra as Text in the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn;Left Standing at Watertown Station - Frank's Future; "Sad-Eyed Sinatras" inSong and Story; "Will You Be My Music" - Sinatra in Popular Song from the1940s to a New Millennium; The Universal Tongue - Language and Image in RaulNunez's Sinatra; "There'll Be No Future Without Him" - The Voice Versus theEmerging Monster of Playing Sinatra; "The Voice" in the Desert - A Quartet ofFrank Revelations; Tale of Two Cities - Sinatra as Genius Hobokenesis andVegas Incarnate; "Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" - Blamingthe Oyster in Sinatraland; Epilogue - The Sinatriad - The Unwritten AmericanEpic. Appendices: Works Cited.