Underlay: a Rhapsody in Colour and Black And White...a political satire, comic fantasy, horror story, detective novel. Featuring...Death and Romance, Heroes, Villains, Demons, Succubi...confused men, fey women, a child who is fated to replay old records, a journalist whose hair and car are both yellow, two boys in the movie business, another who builds fish, several competing producers/directors...Giving up...Murder, Treachery, a talking penis. Incorporating Pain and an idea of Justice in a city that is all cities...On Earth as it is in Hell And Heaven, Past And Future, the Mother Metropolis: ILEUM.