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These are the senses of the power and pull of mystery, the whisper of a voice and the sensuous lull of its prose rhythms, the surround for the private investigations that constitute the public music of this book. Mystery is used here in both straight and delinquent senses, to denote both a way of expressing and a way of experiencing what I will call the rock n roll of social life. Why I call the form of social life I examine rock n roll (and even spell it this way) is part of the reading, part of the rhetorics of motive, part of the assemblage of semiotic clues, that join you and me, reader, in working out the terms of this mystery.
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