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Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction is a assortment of M.A.C. Farrant's work seeing from 1985 to 2009. Compiled of particular fiction from Sick and tired Pigeon (1991), Raw Material (1993), Altered Assertions (1995), Word of Oral cavity (1996), What's True, Darling (1997), Darwin Alone in the Universe (2003), and The Break down So A long way (2007), it offers her complete new collection of 18 reports, "The North Pole", where our individual lifetime is bludgeoned by the threat of "end times" - local climate change, types extinction, pandemics and really bad politics. Each of these stories is an ongoing illustration of the author's look at at understanding terminology ironically, a seek out the strikingly sublime in the awesomely absurd. Objective reality in our culture has become a corporate and business performance of make-believe, and the disassociation and bafflement this causes in our private lives often triggers uncontrollable tragi-comic effects in Farrant's personas - a vacuous lethargy and/or a dangerous violence they action out in a context of the very most excruciatingly glowing banalities imaginable. Satiric and philosophical in strategy, indelibly proclaimed by wit, laughter, irony, playfulness, a blend of parody and research fiction, irreverent evaluation and comic existentialism, these reports observe the literary imagination as an antidote to the stranglehold the popular media now has on the public's imagination. Yet as in every such relentlessly absurdist dystopian communal parodies, there resides behind each of these quick entertainments a stifled scream for help, a trapped yearning for the awe and marvel of what we've become estranged from, an arrested lust for meaning. Unsparing in her critique of the top quality MODERN syncretism our global culture has substituted for traditional human feelings and particular opinion, these hilariously off-side reports understand Farrant's exploration of the relationship of fiction to the evolving engineering of reality in our mass media and information era.
