Sylvie and Dora watch pensively as the study of the damned and the study of the doomed fight for the crumbs of scientific merit. A bridled nail-tail wallaby, the last of its kind, chews on a flake of a substance that looks like beef which fell from the sky moments prior. What, if anything, does the anomalous disclose?

Purity & Danger loses its virginity and finds it again. Sylvie and Dora, made to live as hermits in the desert, atone and are permitted to part the thighs of chastity. They are greeted by two glistening objects: the chastity belt, fetishist’s plaything moonlighting as moral insurance for medieval husbands, and the ring, seal of wifehood and girlfriendom.

Twin sets of twins wash up on the shores of Purity & Danger. Sylvie and Dora see quadruple as they introduce the silent June-Alison and Jennifer Gibbons, prodigious child authors unjustly imprisoned at Broadmoor, to the deafening Dora and Leonora Hazard, cockney chorus-girls born from the imagination of 1970s fairytale-spinner Angela Carter. Special thanks go to June-Alison Gibbons, who kindly contributed her own words for this episode’s visualisation.

A scandal breaks as two Hollywood veterans are scooped up from the cutting room floor. Sylvie and Dora clutch their pearls at Kenneth Anger’s spurious history of cinema’s Golden Age and Anita Loos’ blonde-bashing memoir of industrious coquettedom, stopping along the way to discuss the loveable scamp, the tactical bob and the ethics of excess.

Donald Barthelme’s incontinent colossal father and Giulio Romano’s tempestuous sons of Gaia both crash to earth in narratives of giant vanquishing. Sylvie and Dora explore giants in their various guises — the bellicose, the libidinous, the grotesque, the innocent and the divine — and defend the honour of each.

Slavic Art Deco superstar Tamara de Lempicka and her pioneering automobile-self-portrait collides with Crash, J. G. Ballard’s lurid tale of symphorophiliac entanglement. Sylvie and Dora travel through the crepuscular netherworld of pornography, down the straight line that is the badge of man, towards the future.

Oskar Kokoschka’s swan-skin effigy of Austria’s most assiduous heartthrob, Alma Mahler, meets hoity toity foil, Cynthia, a mannequin-socialite brought to life by window-dresser Lester Gaba.

Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli suckles at the Capitoline Wolf’s imperial teat. Sylvie and Dora discuss feral children and their symbolic environs.

Nuremberg’s non-verbal wunderkind meets Paul Auster’s monomaniacal sleuth in a warm embrace of developmental abnormality. Sylvie and Dora ask, is language innate?

A style war has broken out in the imaginary sex county! Jilly Cooper’s 'Rutshire Chronicles' and Peter York and Ann Barr’s 'Sloane Ranger Handbook' undress the stylistic arsenal of the British class system.