Table of Contents
Introduction 1
We Set To Wondering…#1 Puritans 3
Now's Our Chance!…2 The Man on Your Street 5
Next Thing You Know…#3 The Beast with 3 Backs 12
Preferring the Ache…#4 Circus Maximus 18
Waiting for 1999…#5 "Nicky" 38
Proper Little Madams…#6 Murderers, the Hope of Women 40
Closer to the Heart…#7 The Poison Boyfriend 48
Twitching the Lace…#8 Tender Pervert 68
Inexplicable Charisma…#9 The Hairstyle of the Devil 86
I've Watched All Your Desire…#10 Don't Stop the Night 89
Why Should They Admire Us…#11 Monsters of Love 101
The Prosecution Rests Its Case…#12 Hippopotamomus 105
I Try To Be Normal…#13 The Ultraconformist 123
A Machine That Let You Feel…#14 Voyager 145
Strange Emotional Pattern…#15 Timelord 172
Wrong For All the Right Reasons…#16 The Philosophy of Momus 196
I Had To Put Down the Guitar…#17 Slender Sherbet 259
Author Biography 276
Note to Reader 277
Bibliography and Further Reading 278