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Version: 2017-11-14
To Trinity
I come not from Heaven but from Essex.
WILLIAM MORRIS, A Dream of John Ball (1888)
Contents
Chapter 1: London, Underground
Chapter 4: The Music Writers’ Mutual Publishing Co.
Chapter 5: A Topographical Cremeschnitte
Chapter 6: The Boulevards of Becontree
Chapter 8: The Dagenham Girl Pipers
Chapter 9: The Role of Pageantry
Chapter 10: The Oyster’s Lonely Subterraqueous Sigh
Chapter 12: Bluebeard’s Castle
Chapter 13: A Kind of Knocking
Chapter 14: A Mechanical Aphrodisiac
Chapter 15: What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Chapter 16: Flitration & Purtefication
Chapter 17: An Average Essex Affray
Chapter 18: A Few Discreet Enquiries
Chapter 20: The ‘Cottaging’ Existence
Chapter 23: Up and Down and Round and Round