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INTRODUCTION
VOLUME TWO, THE INVENTORIAL VOLUME OF THIS ARCHIVE, IS DIVIDED INTO A SUITE OF ELEVEN DISCRETE BOOKS. REPLETE WITH NUMEROUS CHAPTERS AND PAGES.
BOOK ONE, LES ECOLE, IS THE CANDID REPOSITORY OF SIX CHAPTERS TREATING OF THE FORMAL EDUCATION OF LEO WRYE, FROM KINDERGARTEN IN VIENNA THROUGH ART SCHOOLS IN FRANCE.
BOOK TWO, LES SATIMENTS, PAGES ILLUSTRIOUSLY SOME OF THE VARIOUS BUILDINGS WITH WHICH WRYE HAS BEEN, OR STILL IS, INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED, THOSE IN AMERICA, ONE IN FRANCE, AND ONE IN FANTASY.
BOOK THREE, LES TOOLS, IS A BILINGUALLY CURIOUSLY S ELECTED TITLE. IT IS CLEARLY ONE OF THE MORE COPIOUS OF COLLECTIONS. ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION AND DESCRIPT ION AND ADULATION OF THE WRYE PANOPLY OF TOOLS.
BOOK FOUR, LES DAWGS, INVENTORIES AND REFLECTS UPON WRYE’S BEST FRIENOS DOWN THROUGH THE AGES, FROM TERRIERS TO HOUND DAWGS.
BOOK FIVE, THE ARTISTS, IS A PASSING SALUTE TO A FEW OF THE ARTISTS WHICH WRYE HAD THE GOOO FORTUNE TO BRUSH UP AGAINST, A HALF CENTURY AGO, WHOSE ORIGINALITY AND CREATIVE TALENTS WRYLY FASCINATED WRYE, AND ARE HERE SO NOTED.
BOOK SIX, LES AUTOMOBILES, SURVEYS WRYE’S AFFILIATION WITH WHEELED MECHANISMS, THE MACHINES THEMSELVES AS WELL AS A FEW FORAYS INTO THE FOOLISHNESS OF AUTO RACING.
BOOK SEVEN, LA MUSUQUE, LOOKS BACK INTO THE YOUTHFUL MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF YOUNG LEO WRYE AS A TRUMPET PLAYING BANDSMAN, AND THEN DEVOUTLY EMBRAC ES THE GENIUS OF MOZART AND HIS MUSIC IN DEPTH.
BOOK EIGHT, LES PROFESSIONS, IS A PARTIAL RECOUNTING AND DOCUMENTATION OF WRYE’S TENTATIVE STABS AT VARIOUS, AND SURPRISINGLY SUNDRY, T RADES AND OCCUPATIONS, ALSO DOWN THROUGH THE AGES.
BOOK NINE, LA COMPAGNIE DU LION, SKETCHES OUT IN A COUPLE OF DOZEN PAGES THE HISTORY AND THE OPERATION OF WRYE’S LITTLE GOLD MINE, THE LION COMPANY INC., THE COMPANY WHICH MADE HIS WRYE EXISTENCE POSSIBLE, IF NOT PLAUSIBLE.
BOOK TEN OF THIS IS A RANDOM GATHERING OF FIFTEEN TALES DREDGED FROM WRYE’S SODDEN SYNAPSES AND SET DOWN DIGITALLY BEFORE THEY BE TOTALLY FORGOT. THEY DATE FROM THE NINETEEN·THIRTIES TO THE FIFTIES, AND SEEM TO MAKE NO ESPECIAL POINT.
BOOK ELEVEN, LES PEUPLES, IS A SORT OF CATCH ALL OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE WHO HAVE SOMEHOW STRAYED INTO THE WAY OF WRYE’S LIFE, CROSSED HIS PATH, CAUGHT HIS NOTICE, LEFT THEIR MARK, OR OTHERWISE BECAME NOTORIOUS AMONG STASHED PAGES OF INSTITUTIONAL ROSTERS, TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES, OR HIT LISTS.