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Pie Square
Pie Square is a story of the most remarkable fast food chain ever conceived. It is rapidly spreading across the world, devouring its devotees, and creating enormous wealth for its owners. It supplies not only sustenance for the body, but for the mind and spirit too. Its all enveloping philosophies are moulding the youth of the world for an impending revolution that will turn global society upside down. This is a story of “coincidence” and how various sequences of events can lead to power, fame and wealth. It is a tale of delusion, split personality, and divergent thinking. It is satire aimed at the fast food industry, its bizarre executives, the powerful forces of advertising, and the cancerous growth of big business. Youth is examined in terms of how it is exploited and of its wasted potential and how early experiences affect later life. There is nostalgia for the sixties and seventies; yet a wealth of comment on video games, junk food and computer technology, the clichés of today.
314 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 7, 2013
About the author
d'ettut
12 books2 followersd'ettut is an enigma and intends to stay that way.
They have no vested political interests apart from a desire to help facilitate a movement which could bring about an equitable global society. They do not aspire to any particular role in such a movement nor do they wish to gain anything financially. The books are intended to assist in the quest to help the world gain social fairness.
Their literary style varies. None of it is intended to be entertaining. It is confronting, didactic and enlightening (one hopes). They write about social justice and target youthful, very literate, Harry Potter-type readers who are now real-world savvy and, like Harry, are bursting to take on the establishment. D'ettut's first four works are presented as novels and describe social despondency in all its manifestations. Greenwars (1998), the first novel, essentially covers the fact that technology and its evolution can outstrip social evolution. Moral and ethical development of society is not able to keep pace with its own driving technology. This is all described in the form of an animal allegory; a kind of 21st century Animal Farm. The second novel, Pie Square (2000), describes a different aspect of social evolution. In this situation it is the benign exploitation of youth through a highly sophisticated interactive electronic based fast food chain. Using this device young people are groomed for a more creative and constructive contribution to society. In Vampire Cities (2000) the brashness, the harshness, of unfettered capitalism is the main theme. But the subthemes rock! Amber Reins Fall (2006) looks in detail at an individual struggling in the 1960s and early 1970s to come to terms with contemporary society and the need for there to be a progressive evolution towards a moral betterment. The main protagonist invents the self-help concept.
The fifth work, OWL: One World League (2017), is neither fiction nor fact. It is a literary work called fusion fiction which creates a sugar coated political treatise condemning overpopulation, encouraging world government and issuing a clarion call to form a new global cyber-democracy before it's too late; before the elite snuff out social media. Fusion fiction they define as literary bisociation, to borrow a term used by Koestler and Edward de Bono. It's a pairing of semi fictional plots with slabs of borrowed and authentic text taken selectively from journals relevant to their thesis with no formal quotation or referencing. D'ettut says, Like Andy Warhol paintings of unacknowledged Campbell's soup cans, this is a collage of written down ideas, a creative plagiarism, to send a cerebral message. These books are written in support of One World League - OWL.
They have no vested political interests apart from a desire to help facilitate a movement which could bring about an equitable global society. They do not aspire to any particular role in such a movement nor do they wish to gain anything financially. The books are intended to assist in the quest to help the world gain social fairness.
Their literary style varies. None of it is intended to be entertaining. It is confronting, didactic and enlightening (one hopes). They write about social justice and target youthful, very literate, Harry Potter-type readers who are now real-world savvy and, like Harry, are bursting to take on the establishment. D'ettut's first four works are presented as novels and describe social despondency in all its manifestations. Greenwars (1998), the first novel, essentially covers the fact that technology and its evolution can outstrip social evolution. Moral and ethical development of society is not able to keep pace with its own driving technology. This is all described in the form of an animal allegory; a kind of 21st century Animal Farm. The second novel, Pie Square (2000), describes a different aspect of social evolution. In this situation it is the benign exploitation of youth through a highly sophisticated interactive electronic based fast food chain. Using this device young people are groomed for a more creative and constructive contribution to society. In Vampire Cities (2000) the brashness, the harshness, of unfettered capitalism is the main theme. But the subthemes rock! Amber Reins Fall (2006) looks in detail at an individual struggling in the 1960s and early 1970s to come to terms with contemporary society and the need for there to be a progressive evolution towards a moral betterment. The main protagonist invents the self-help concept.
The fifth work, OWL: One World League (2017), is neither fiction nor fact. It is a literary work called fusion fiction which creates a sugar coated political treatise condemning overpopulation, encouraging world government and issuing a clarion call to form a new global cyber-democracy before it's too late; before the elite snuff out social media. Fusion fiction they define as literary bisociation, to borrow a term used by Koestler and Edward de Bono. It's a pairing of semi fictional plots with slabs of borrowed and authentic text taken selectively from journals relevant to their thesis with no formal quotation or referencing. D'ettut says, Like Andy Warhol paintings of unacknowledged Campbell's soup cans, this is a collage of written down ideas, a creative plagiarism, to send a cerebral message. These books are written in support of One World League - OWL.
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