Welp. That was significantly more bonkers than I was expecting, and my Bonkers Expectations were high. Do you like nested stories? Are you a fan of proto-science and mystical hoohaw? How do you feel about alternative dentistry? If you can answer any of these questions, respond in the form of an essay, seal it with beeswax in a brine-filled pickle jar, and launch it into the freaking sun, and then maybe pick up a copy of Locus Solus. Just buckle up for a bunch of random reductive and racist "exoticism" along the way, because this was written by a European guy in the first half of the twentieth century, and fucking of course. Recommended with a huge, sweaty asterisk, of the Vonnegut persuasion.