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Headless: A Book To Pass The Time

I've found another book to keep you busy while we wait on Ellis' next offering - Headless by Benjamin Weissman.

Consider, for instance, 'Morality Play (Six Hours in Length)' from Headless, "an old-fashioned fable of the unendurable man known only as (raises his arm) … who wakes up one morning sick to his stomach." Not unlike the protagonist of Albert Camus' The Stranger,"this unendurable man" goes on to commit casual violence:

"He shoots his daughter and son, strangles his wife, and heaves their newborn infant against the wall; clutter, he screams, every person takes up so much room … the world is passive, he says as smoke rises all around him, I am the active one, the spring rain of contempt, a swift morose icon, my gift is misguided love, I’m the only person who’s truly supposed to be here."

The above was taken from the In The Fray review. Plus, Bret Easton Ellis has a favorable blurb about the book:

"Beneath the deadpan absurdity these virtuoso comic monologues describe what it means to be male." - Ellis

Thats good enough for me.

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