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"What Is Art?"

As Gabriel is being molested off-camera, as it were, Ray changes the subject to himself. He discusses the spiritual quality of the bend in the river Thames near Richmond where he lives and Gabriel was molested. Ray then jumps to his art school days and a class in design where he and a tutor named Harold Silverman argue over newly devised alphabets. From there Ray goes into his rise as a rock star, his early electronic experimentation, and how he ended up in retirement in a glass house on the river side. This segues into the plot of Psychoderelict, of how his manager Rastus Knight and a celebrity journalist named Ruth Streeting conspired to give his career a short bump back into notoriety.