Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Mediation I: "I" am Catullus -- A Mimic Lesbia -- Fairy Tales of Perversion -- "I" am Lesbia -- Mediation II: The Logodaedal Hypercube -- Entr'acte: Criss-Crossed Anatomies -- I'm a Substitute: Excruciations Extinct and Inextinct -- Mediation III: The Irony of "How Things Are" and Non- Desistance -- When And How The Earth Moves -- The Manifold Usefulness of Ineptitude -- Mediation IV: From Libertinage to Zukofsky -- Shock Courtier from Planet Restoration -- Veni Vidi Vicious: Remembrance of Excruciations Past -- Illustrator and Interloper: Flat Takes Revenge on Thick -- Special F/X of Translation: Thickening and Lightening -- Master-Strokes: Vehicularity, Caricature and " The Hour at Which" -- A Pathognomic Omnibus Leaves the Station on Time -- As If: Femina Naturaliter Terribilis -- Towers, Pagodas, and the Women who Confront Them -- Visions of Philistia or How Inhuman Is It? -- Cinema -- Grand Delusions: Renoir In and Out of the Bear-Suit -- "All that the Modern World Requires":Miami Vice as Low and High Culture -- Alpha Fe/Male, Omega Wo/Man: With(out) the Muses, What Can Be Hoped For? -- Notes -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Bibliography -- Index.