Conversations with a 4,000-Year-Old Fungus

Conversations with a 4,000-Year-Old Fungus gathers twenty-five straight-faced tales of glorious absurdity.Here animals argue philosophy, cavemen chase visionary ideas, astronauts ponder the cosmic significance of lettuce, and the universe itself seems to be running slightly off schedule.In these stories, squirrels form grand plans, pudding becomes a matter of destiny, and a male prostitute in Paris discovers that life rarely unfolds according to plan. Along the way, a man attempts an earnest conversation with a 4,000-year-old fungus, a perplexing enigma refuses to be solved, and the electricity wells of Grabnar-3 suggest that reality may be stranger than anyone suspects.By turns absurd, satirical, and unexpectedly thoughtful, these stories explore the peculiar gap between how the world works-and how we insist on understanding it.For readers who enjoy deadpan humor, philosophical nonsense, fables gone sideways, and satire delivered with a perfectly straight face.Because sometimes the best way to explain reality is to laugh at it.

Pagina's: 144, Paperback, Ninth Measure, The