Townshend named the work an "prolonged meditation on manic genius and the darkish artwork of creative imagination." The novel will be accompanied by an opera, which is at this time in growth, with an art installation to comply with. The earliest general public case in point of Townshend's involvement with charitable results in was in 1968, when Townshend donated the use of his former Wardour Street apartment to the Meher Baba Association.