Lingo -- Imhotep -- Aghribat al-Arab -- Henry the Navigator -- Other worlds -- Bacchanal -- Astraea's footnotes -- Queen Marie-Therèse & Nabo -- Lament & praise song -- Sunset in Surinam -- Monticello -- Unframing a triptych -- Captain Amasa Delano's dilemma -- Before the windows -- Double exposure -- King of the octave -- The price of blood -- The quadroon's masque ball -- Antebellum silhouettes -- Tobe's blues -- Othello's robe -- Jeanne Duval's confession -- Hagar's daughter -- Chiaroscuro -- Nude study -- Trueblood's blues -- Satchmo, USA -- Cante jondo -- The house -- To beauty -- Daddy Red -- Twilight seduction -- Homage to a bellhop -- Forgive & live -- Séance & shadowplay -- Lustration -- Lucumi -- Oil -- At the Red Sea -- In line at the bank -- Troubling the water -- Netherworlds -- Lingua franca -- The archivist -- Desecration -- Outside the Blue Nile.