This paper presents an analysis of the "let alone" structure in English (Fillmore et al., 1988). Concentrating on inversion structures, the paper further develops a stripping ellipsis analysis (Harris, 2016) with two additional claims. First, the maximal height of the fragment following let alone is lower than sentential negation. Second, contrastively marked subjects occupy a low topic position above vP (Belletti 2004), thereby offering novel evidence for discourse functional elements between vP and TP. The paper concludes with speculations of the subclausal syntax below the let alone element in ellipsis and inversion environments.