This book is stored in a box with Houedard material owing to dsh's indebtedness to Farquarson for the slash-dash typewriter font although there is no mention of it in thos book. This book is an autobiographic episode in the life of Robin Farquharson who ditched a successful university career and simply dropped out, living on the streets of London, and his acquaintance with L.S.D. The content has similarities with Situationism. Robin Farquharson was a very brilliant young man who had become interested in the theory of voting while he was still an undergraduate. This theory was published with Michael Dummett. Robin Farquharson fell victim to this awful mental illness (manic-depressive) and couldn't really do any more creative work. . There was a dramatic episode when he entered the prize fellowship examination at All Souls. He quite certainly would have been elected but for the insane telephone conversation he had with the Warden on the eve of the election meeting -- the first manifestation of the mental illness from which he suffered for the rest of his life. . Robin Farquharson said we should send it to Econometrica, so I sent it to Econometrica. . Dummett recalled that "I can't remember who actually wrote the main body of the text. I mean, we wrote it together, but the machinery, the technical notions and technical vocabulary, that all came from him." Dom Sylvester Houedard credits him with inventing the "slash-&-dash alphabet" which Houedard refined as a typewriter based font. Accordingly, this book is stored with the Houedard manuscript though there is no reference to the alphabet in this book or on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.