Status Updates From Der Schaum der Tage

A chapter is only two or three pages long. Each one of them is an image Vian is drawing. An excess like a Brueghel painting at a lecture of Jean Sol Partre (Sartre). A walk through the gutter when visiting a doctor. A mad scientist's laboratory when shopping at an apothecary. Laws of physics are nullified. Matter is anthropomorphic, a window heals itself, a door attacks, rooms shrink.

Surreal. Colin cuts his eyelids into form, his pimples withdraw from exposure to the mirror light. For a dinner, the table is decorated with vessels containing chicken embryos performing a dance and in the cutlery ladybugs are embedded. A pianocktail is played to mix cocktails depending on the song.
Literary improvisations like jazz music. To be read concentrated to get the images. Really funny at times.