Each chapter in TMAC has a theme ascribed in the Online version. Mel Broe requested them to help select photographs for the sliders. It was an interesting exercise to reduce TMAC to basic pictorial keywords and phrases. The following table presents the chapter themes.
| Chapter | Theme |
| 1 | Trying to open |
| 2 | Eviction |
| 3 | False homes, lost sanctuaries |
| 4 | Theory – new places, new modes, wrong self-perceptions, false family |
| 5 | Sydney is teeming with life |
| 6 | Death & disease |
| 7 | Revelry |
| 8 | Prison & escape |
| 9 | Travel, displacement |
| 10 | After Ulysses – no rest in peace, false celebrations, desire to escape, null journeys, extrinsic space |
| 11 | Ceremony (self-delusion) |
| App | Aftermath, capitulate to halt, no ending |