1. Language as Asphalt -- Bare Feet -- Hard and Clean Roads -- Struggle for the Roads -- Language-game -- Bahasa Indonesia, "Indonesian Language" -- 2. Towers -- Homes on Wheels and Floating Homes -- The Cities -- The Camps -- The Towers -- 3. From Darkness to Light -- The City of Light -- Dactyloscopy -- The Floodlight -- The Sublime -- The Mirror -- 4. Indonesian Dandy -- The Dolls -- The Modern Times -- Nationalism and the Birth of the Dandy -- The Death of the Dandy -- The Parade -- 5. Let Us Become Radio Mechanics -- The Metaphor -- The Thing -- The Voice -- The Closed Circuits -- The Mechanics -- Epilogue: Only the Deaf Can Hear Well -- Sjahrir Recalled -- Memories of Holland -- Time in Three Dimensions -- Bacteria -- The Splendid Radio -- The Mouth of Karundeng -- Sportsmen-Dandies-Jokers-Engineers -- Ear Culture -- The Happy End