A note on sources -- Dramatis personae -- From the ether -- Memory -- Shock -- Intimacy -- Solitude -- Narcotic -- Alienation -- Solace -- Resonance -- Loss -- Siren
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"An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. R.J. Wheaton offers an imagistic, in-depth investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself"--Cover, pages [4]