They were trying to reduce us all to predictable units, robots. What! he thought, are the poor girls supposed to pee in their panties if they can’t find a superior? Years of school came back to him (“Please, may I leave the room, sir?”) and rituals which had appeared nonsensical suddenly made sense in a sinister way. He was in Norton’s Emporium, a glorified 5 & 10 ¢ store, when he saw the sign: His first overt act began in Dayton the following Saturday. He would be a random factor in every equation from this day forward, unto death, it would be civil war: the Midget versus the Digits…. Once and for all, beyond fantasy, in the depth of his soul he declared war on the “statuatory ape,” on law and order, on predictability, on negative entropy.
He would have revenge…ĭamn the science of mathematics itself, the line, the square, the average, the whole measurable world that pronounced him a bizarre random factor. It was bad enough to be, by the standards of the gigantic and stupid majority, a freak how much worse to be so named as to remind these big oversized clods of the cinema’s two most famous portrayers of monstro-freaks by the time the Midget was fifteen, he had built up a detestation for ordinary mankind that dwarfed (he hated that word) the relative misanthropies of Paul of Tarsus, Clement of Alexandria, Swift of Dublin and even Robert Putney Drake. Funny, raunchy, trippy and absolutely fantastic.The Midget, whose name was Markoff Chaney, was no relative of the famous Chaneys of Hollywood, but people did keep making jokes about that. Though it is strange and bizarre it is also very entertaining to a very high degree. Really crazy stuff going within the pages! Jumping from one character to another, seemingly going back and forth through time, viewed through different perspectives ect. While there is a clear narrative this book is all over the place. So that's the simple premise of the story, but as it begins things get really weird! But it might not be easy as it involves one of the oldest conspiracies known to man.
So now its up to Goodman to piece together this mystery. And not only that the editor himself has gone missing. So where to begin with this massive book? Well for the most the plot of this sprawling story follows New York detective Saul Goodman as he investigates the bombing of the offices of a radical magazine run by the editor Joe Malik. I have finally completed reading of what I think is the most interesting and weird work of science fiction, "The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
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