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The Animals
'This is wrong, horribly wrong.'
'No, this is okay...this feels wonderful ' These are the two opposite voices that speak in Autumn's mind, a dissident-thinking human being in the year 2099, in an orange world where women grow green mustaches, where insects are larger than humans, and where it is as common for one to masturbate publicly as it is to breathe. In this futuristic world of un-ending work and death, of flying hover cars and hypersexuals, Autumn Williams discovers something forgotten, something ancient, that enables these voices to continue committed love. It is through this confusing feeling, that the Voice of Morality and the voice of his own desires wage war against Autumn's conscience, causing him to question why the world is. In this satiric and absurdist first novel by an author only 19 years old, D.W. gives Autumn Williams a question that leads him talking to his mirrored reflection, a giant, coffee-drinking grasshopper named Charles, across the universe to a planet inhabited by soul-plucking Doctors, and finally, to an answer revealed by the author himself. But, as Autumn Williams discovers, it is not the answer that separates animals from human beings, but the acknowledgment of the question.
'No, this is okay...this feels wonderful ' These are the two opposite voices that speak in Autumn's mind, a dissident-thinking human being in the year 2099, in an orange world where women grow green mustaches, where insects are larger than humans, and where it is as common for one to masturbate publicly as it is to breathe. In this futuristic world of un-ending work and death, of flying hover cars and hypersexuals, Autumn Williams discovers something forgotten, something ancient, that enables these voices to continue committed love. It is through this confusing feeling, that the Voice of Morality and the voice of his own desires wage war against Autumn's conscience, causing him to question why the world is. In this satiric and absurdist first novel by an author only 19 years old, D.W. gives Autumn Williams a question that leads him talking to his mirrored reflection, a giant, coffee-drinking grasshopper named Charles, across the universe to a planet inhabited by soul-plucking Doctors, and finally, to an answer revealed by the author himself. But, as Autumn Williams discovers, it is not the answer that separates animals from human beings, but the acknowledgment of the question.
412 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
About the author
DW Arsement
2 books1 followerDW Arsement has been writing since he was two months old, when he wrote his first novella on the streets of Pluto, using his own poop as a pen. This is his second novel which is aimed at arousing the public's mind, spreading doubt, and causing controversy. He knows how to set things on fire with his mind, can levitate, and is a compulsive liar. He can move mountains, write worthless novels, and is capable of making religious people everywhere infuriated. He enjoys walks on the beach, playing Tetris, thinking he is going to die on his birthday, taking acid, shooting guns at imaginary people, scribbling worthless truths on bathroom stalls, stalking beautiful girls, and masturbating. Sometimes these last two things go together. In the year 2065 he will be revealed as the Anti-Christ, and will suddenly disappear, and then re-appear in the year 3493, when humanity is smart enough to destroy religion, figure out a solution for world hunger, stop all wars and create a final everlasting world peace. (None of this is to be taken literally.) Also, by then people will have jet packs.
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