Laden with sub-titles: 'John Deakin and the Soho Court around Francis Bacon', 'A Psychobiographic Fiction'; London, Rome, Tangier, Paris, Greece: 'While Deakin glories in his difference, his solitude. The others knew he was there, wanted him there: his rancid suits, his sandpaper tongue. No need to ask where Deakin was. Just where you didn't need him. Stirrring. Snapping.'
