Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role -- Part I. Essays -- Chapter 2: Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence -- Chapter 3: When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be -- Chapter 4: Ethology and the Sebeokian way from zoosemiotics to cyber(bio)semiotics -- Chapter 5: Sebeok's panopticon -- Chapter 6: The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok -- Chapter 7: Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century -- Chapter 8: Traduttore traditore? -- Chapter 9: Astonishing life -- Chapter 10: Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts -- Chapter 11: The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology -- Chapter 12: Tom's often neglected other theoretical source -- Chapter 13: We got to know his method -- Chapter 14: About a master of signs starting from The Sign & Its Masters -- Chapter 15: A Tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok -- Chapter 16: Thomas A. Sebeok, Hybrid Joke-teller -- Chapter 17: Thomas A. Sebeok, A portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician -- Chapter 18: Sebők Tamás - Identity and integrity -- Chapter 19: Birth of a notion -- Chapter 20: Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics -- Part II. Vignettes and stories -- Chapter 21: Ubiquity -- Chapter 22: Un Sacco di Cane -- Chapter 23: Tom Sebeok, Hoosier -- Chapter 24: Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time -- Chapter 25: Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok -- Chapter 26: Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok - This is a way of thinking -- Chapter 27: Summing up: In lieu of an introduction -- Part III. Letters -- Chapter 28: Anderson letter of 13 May 2002 -- Chapter 29: Eco letter of 11 January 2002 -- Chapter 30: Hamp letter of 2 January 2002 -- Chapter 31: Remak letter of 24 December 2001 -- Chapter 32: Watt letter of 5 January 2002 -- Part IV. The Tartu connection -- Chapter 33: The Tartu connection: Thomas Sebeok's correspondence with Juri Lotman -- Part V. Final resting place -- Burial site marker and co-ordinates -- Part VI. Photographs -- Twenty-seven pictures -- Notes on contributors -- Index