A young woman discovers that dancers at a local discotheque are being driven to acts of insane violence. "The place was full of swarming, pugnacious, dangerous missellneous reptile's... Teenager's everywhere pounded their way on top of each other crazily strangling, biting and slashing each other's with broken glass, smashed records or sharpened blades... "
16-year-old Jennifer Gibbons (1963-1993) wrote
Discomania in 1980, alongside her twin sister June-Alison, who was also writing her own novel,
The Pepsi Cola Addict, in the bedroom that they shared.
Jennifer offered
Discomania to the same English vanity press who would publish June-Alison's book, but
Discomania was turned down for being "too violent, too sexual, and too futuristic."
Long thought to have been lost or destroyed, June-Alison had in fact preserved the typescript of this unique, furious, funny, and strange novel, which we present with her blessing, alongside additional texts from June-Alison, and editors David Tibet and Ania Goszczyńska.
一位年輕女性發現當地舞廳的舞者被驅使進行瘋狂的暴力行為。
「那個地方充滿了成群結隊、好鬥、危險的雜七雜八的爬行動物……到處都是青少年瘋狂地互相撲打、扼殺、咬傷，並用破碎的玻璃、摔壞的唱片或鋒利的刀片互相劈砍……」
16歲的珍妮佛·吉本斯（Jennifer Gibbons，1963-1993）在1980年與她的雙胞胎姐姐朱恩-艾莉森（June-Alison）一起寫下了《Discomania》，而朱恩-艾莉森也在她們共用的臥室裡寫著自己的小說《The Pepsi Cola Addict》。
珍妮佛將《Discomania》提供給同一家將出版朱恩-艾莉森書籍的英國自費出版社，但《Discomania》因為「過於暴力、過於性暗示、過於未來主義」而被拒絕。
長期以來被認為已經遺失或毀壞的手稿，實際上朱恩-艾莉森保存了這部獨特、憤怒、有趣且奇特的小說的打字稿，我們在她的祝福下呈現這部作品，並附上朱恩-艾莉森的其他文本，以及編輯大衛·蒂貝特（David Tibet）和安妮亞·戈斯基（Ania Goszczyńska）的內容。
Jennifer Gibbons (1963-1993) was the twin sister of June-Alison Gibbons, author of The Pepsi Cola Addict. She wrote Discomania in the bedroom that she shared with June-Alison, who sat on a desk next to her writing The Pepsi-Cola Addict. Jennifer died on 9 March 1993, aged 29, while being transferred from Broadmoor Hospital, where the twins had been incarcerated for ten years, to a lower-security establishment. Known as "The Silent Twins," the story of Jennifer and June-Alison Gibbons has been documented in books, documentaries, and a feature film.
珍妮佛·吉本斯（Jennifer Gibbons，1963-1993）是六月-艾莉森·吉本斯（June-Alison Gibbons）的雙胞胎姐妹，後者是《可口可樂成癮者》（The Pepsi Cola Addict）的作者。她在與六月-艾莉森共用的臥室裡寫下了《舞曲狂熱》（Discomania），而六月-艾莉森則坐在她旁邊的桌子上寫作《可口可樂成癮者》。珍妮佛於1993年3月9日去世，享年29歲，當時她正從布羅德摩醫院（Broadmoor Hospital）轉移到一個安全性較低的機構，該醫院是雙胞胎姐妹被囚禁十年的地方。珍妮佛和六月-艾莉森·吉本斯被稱為「沉默的雙胞胎」，她們的故事已在書籍、紀錄片和一部故事片中被記錄下來。
