Arrow in the Blue: An Autobiography

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PART I. AHOR AND BABO 1905-1921 I The Horoscope page 13 II The Koestler Saga 19 III The Pitfalls of Autobiography 29 IV The Tree of Guilt—Ahor and Babo 33 V The Hour Glass 44 VI Arrow in the Blue 49 VII And so to Sex 56 VIII The Dawn of Politics 59 IX Portrait of the Author at Sixteen 70 PART II. THE ARROW SPLITS 1922-1926 A Bunch of Cosy Cannibals 81 I Become Almost Normal 92 XII The Arrow Splits 97 AM The First Crusade 102 XIV The Koestlers are Ruined 111 XV. The Blessings of Unreason 115 PART III. A VAGABOND AT LARGE 1926-1927 XVI Weighed and Found Wanting 125 XVII Mostly about Hunger 133 XVII. The Bohemia of Tel Aviv 146 XIX. Dead End 155 XX. The Turning Point 162 PART IV. THE ROAD TO RESPECTABILITY 1927-1930 XXI King Feisal of Iraq 169 XXII Farewell to Jerusalem 176 XXII From the Mount of Olives to Montparnasse 187 XXIV An Elegy on Bawdy Houses 194 XXV Drifting in a Magnetic Storm 204 XXXVI. Portrait of the Author at Twenty-five 211 PART V. THE ROAD TO MARX 1930-1931 XXVII Liberal Gotterdammerung 221 XXVIII The Psychology of Conversion 230 XXIX Rebellion and Faith: Rebellion 238 XXX Rebellion and Faith: Faith 244 AXXI The Exploding Universe 254 XXXII Of Charlatans and Cranks 261 XXXII Apprenticeship for the Arctic 275 XXXIV Through the Polar Night on a Flying Whale 283 XXXV What's in a Name 301 EPILOGUE 307 Illustrations The Koestler family a.d. 1911 111 The Author at 13 126 The Author at 21 126 The Author at present 126