A collection of seven short stories that explore the labyrinths of consciousness, the fragile mysteries of love, and the forces that--like the mathematical notion of "strange attractors"--bring a secret order to the chaotic randomness of life.

A mathematician studies the geometry of soap bubbles and responds to the rapture of infatuation by reciting Shakespeare in Yiddish.

A group of Olympian intellects is made childlike by the appearance of a double rainbow.

Becky Sharp steps out of the pages of Vanity Fair to confound a pretentious philosopher.

These are just some of the unlikely things that happen in this collection of stories that explores the interactions of thought and feeling, mind and heart, to reveal the deep mysterious ties between seemingly unrelated lives.