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Information is everything in Hard-boiled Wonderland. A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of the World a new arrival is learning his role as dream-reader. But there is something eerily disquieting about the changeless nature of the town and it's fable-like inhabitants. Told in alternate chapters, the two stories converge and combine to create a novel that is surreal, beautiful, thrilling and extraordinary. Album Tracks 1. 1. Elevator, Silence, Overweight 2. On the Whole, I Think of Myself 3. I Turned My Attention to What Lay Beyond 4. This Was Pretty Much What I Was Thinking 5. 2. Golden Beasts 6. No Sooner Have the First Animals Plodded 7. 3. Rain Gear, Inklings, Laundry 8. All at Once I Was Plunged Into Darkness 9. Seconds Passed 10. Accordin Tmy Information, Those Inklings 11. That's Why I Called for Your Services 12. Semiotecs Traffic Illegally Obtained Data 1. 4. the Library 2. This Is a Poor Town 3. As You Can See, No One Visits Here 4. 5. Tabulations, Evolution, S*x Drive 5. You Two Live Alone? 6. What Say We Drop the Subject? 7. Why Didn't You Tell Me That 8. 6. Shadow 9. Dreamreading Proves Not As Effortless 10. Once I Am Settled in, I Will Be 11. 7. Skull, Lauren Bacall, Library 12. Something Put Me on Edge 13. At Eleven O'Clock, I Left the Apartment 1. After I Left the Restaurant 2. Back at the Apartment 3. I Picked Up the Stainless-Steel Tongs 4. 8. the Colonel 5. If the Workers Quarter 6. 9. Appetite, Disappointment, Leningrad 7. Overwork. I Mean, If You Were Really 8. The Difference Was Not Simply One of Appearance 9. You're a Real Whiz at These Explanations 10. Professor Petrov ? for That Was His Name 11. 10. the Wall 12. I
