Isolarion : a different Oxford journey / James Attlee.

pt. 1. Embarkation -- Purification -- Of music and cannibalism -- Doing my part -- The melancholy pilgrim -- Bread and circuses -- Boucherie chatar -- Designated desire-lines: planning a new road -- Further purification of the pilgrim -- Enrobed -- Of love and jewels -- Behind the blue door (inside the private shop) -- From the literal to the allegorical and back -- Wittgenstein's lion and a Cappuccino Sea -- Virtual streets and gateways: the plans revisited -- Cosmonauts and coleslaw -- St. Edmund's Well and a faded warning -- pt. 2. -- Making do and getting by -- Egyptian vagabonds, afternoon men, and the Malus Genius of our nation -- Losing the key -- Bed-sits and Birardari -- What they think you can bear: football, religion, and nightmares on the Cowley Road -- Between two fires: pulling the dragon's teeth -- Melancholy, an American photographer, and the Irish writer -- Cowley Road calling -- Just less lucky -- Dreadlocks and rim-shots: Reggae at the Zodiac -- Of lepers, lunatics, and layabouts -- Dancing sand and Zum-Zum water -- Junior Jihad -- Of books and bitumen -- Carnival -- Returning to the source -- pt. 3. A journey in the Hinterland -- Into the furnace -- Blessings and tribulation -- A graveyard reborn -- Finding a clue -- Of bats and mutton curry -- Margaret's story -- A hidden pool -- The liquid kingdom -- The gateways close -- Of robots, wild rhubarb, and the new Oxford way -- Things fall apart: an ending of sorts.

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Isolarion takes its title from a type of fifteenth-century map that isolates an area in order to present it in detail, and thats just what James Attlee does here for Cowley Road in Oxford. The former site of a leper hospital, a workhouse, and a medieval well said to have miraculous healing powers, Cowley Road has little to do with the dreaming spires of the tourists or students Oxford. From a sojourn in a sensory-deprivation tank to a furtive visit to an unmarked pornography emporium, the sharp-eyed Attlee investigates every aspect of the Cowley Roads appealingly eclectic culture, where ha.

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