This Side of Heaven - A Novel Condition:Very Good the stories he has come

the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years

At first I thought I'd managed it

In  My Ishmael

from colliding planets to transformative cockroaches

This Side of Heaven - A Novel Condition:Very Good the stories he has comeA comedian, a nun, a reality TV star and countless others meet in a garden. This is not the start of a joke, but the beginnings of a parable. Self justifications ensue, as well as rationalisations for what these characters are doing here. These denizens might be running out of time, while there is all the time in their Kafkaesque world, and an orchestra is playing a song nobody else may hear.