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Prentice politely called it ‘a strange thing’, praised those sections in which the writing was ‘right away from Joyce’ and then unsurprisingly rejected it (1932). As Pretence later told, ‘turning down Beckett’s first novel was perhaps a mistake; but it would have been an almost impossible thing to handle; we didn’t understand half of it ourselves’.

“there are true things in this world only observed by a single set of eyes”

The box grows.
It wants to be a tree again.

A dystopian novel written in 1977 and lost for 40 years (due to its poor sales and sexist comments until a literary agent found it in a charity shop in 2020) about a world where individuality and non-conformity are considered illnesses and potential sources of contamination across society…

Kay Dick was a dyke!

maths makes sense

strange people are just evolved humans

Fabulous ending.