Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus

by Morse, Garry Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780889226975
• ISBN10: 0889226970
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-06
• Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd

Summary

In tribute to the surrealist narrative techniques of Andre Breton and Robert Desnos, Minor Episodesdocuments the serial adventures of Minor, the ubiquitous "everymogul" who embodies the economic 1 percent and keeps musically erotic quixotics on tap. Having entered a "rent in time" that gives each chapter an alternate reality, Minor swaggers through an undersea casino, in-flight blockbuster, bawdy Western, and Kafkaesque job hunt, cavorting with billboard queen Bebe Lala and country-music legend Faith Faith, when not dressing down his shifty sidekick, The Concierge, or haunting the intensely disinterested songstress Miss Sharp. However, danger looms in the form of The Stropper, a serial killer fresh out of a shaving promotion, and an enigmatic ginger-beer icon who has retired from a satisfying life of culinary assassinations. Major Ruckus, a contrapuntal text and parody of the speculative fiction genre, celebrates the stylistic techniques of William S. Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson, following a frenzied struggle by various parties to obtain an essential time-travel component, a struggle that includes psychic "dicks," universal call-center operators, aboriginal eroticists, lubricant heiresses, rogue advertisement animations, pornography censors, and alien sperm-bank clones, all to the horrified fascination of hapless meta-writer Oober Mann. But ultimately it is Carl Sagan who creates the most confusion, when his prudish doodle of a woman is sent into space aboard the Voyagerprobe, triggering a plan to "assist" Earth's declining population through extraterrestrials in the guise of census takers. Minor Episodesand Major Ruckusintroduce The Chaos! Quincunx series. Garry Thomas Morseis a Governor General's Awardnominated poet and fiction writer.