A Refracted Tale of Two Wordy Old Gentlemen in a Blue Prism
1 Around the Time When Adolf Was a Glint in His First Cousin’s Eye
2 A Vision of Love (Wearing Boxing Gloves)
3 Drago Thoms: Pythagoras, Madness, and an Indian Summer in Bed
4 The Kama Sutra, Ganika, and Russian Vampires
5 We Are the Music Makers. We Are the Dreamers of Dreams.
7 A Day (or So) in the Country
8 Just a Lucky Man Who Made the Grade
11 The Day Abu Hasan Broke Wind
12 A Microcosm of the Apocalypse
13 A Farewell of Scarlet Wax and Gardenia
2 It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Part I)
3 The Die Is Cast (aka Les Jeux Sont Faits)
8 “A Shadow Can Never Claim the Beauty of the Image”
9 The Birth of Blanche in a Dangerous Ladbroke Grove Pub
10 Cicero’s Fine Oceanarium of Spewed Wonders (1920–1932)
11 Suffragettes, Mermaids, and Hooligans (1932)
13 Jackboots, Cleopatra, and the Bearded Lady (1932–1936)
14 The Girl in the Tatty Blue Dress
15 She Had a Most Immoral Eye (1937–1940)
16 Archibald’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
17 Then There Were Three Again
18 Music, Brigadiers, and Marigold (1940)
19 It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Part II)
21 A Giant in the Promised Land
22 Pepper’s Ghost, Fluffers, and a Brief Encounter
1 “Everybody Ought to Go Careful in a City Like This” (1945)
5 A Blue Rose by Any Other Name
6 Dragons, Confucius, and Snooker