pan lili ~ snippet
“Someone went missing right next door; exemplary coincidences must transform into something meaningful—a lovely syzygy,“ Stipe said.
“You dragged her into it, making her snoop around my place, infusing her with questions she never had, and giving her answers she neither wanted nor was ready for, and which, to top it off, were nonsense,“ Stipe said. “Not that there is anything wrong with nonsense.“
Summary
People are vanishing in a silent scream of loud absence, and nobody seems to care. Except Gem, an interior designer with an eye for the amiss; Croydox, a jaded detective with a vision; and Stipe, the split-brain pataphysicist, who might be the only one who can make sense of it all. Or make it much, much worse.
Their lives collide in a story that’s part mystery, part existential puzzle, and entirely unpredictable. As they chase the faintest threads—whispers of a mycelial network, promises of ‘leveling up’, a world split into two—they’re forced to wonder: What does it even mean to disappear? Can you trust a reality that keeps shifting? And why does no one talk about Faroese cuisine?
When People Go Plonf is for readers who enjoy stories that stick in your brain like a fungal spore. It’s a novel that’s equal parts philosophical musing, absurdist romp, and the kind of mystery where the real question might be why you ever expected things to make sense in the first place.
EXTRA
Chapter titles are numbers written in full in traditional Hudum Mongolian script. Scattered around the book are several hand-drawn illustrations by the author, not all duck related.
For more information about pataphysics or ‘Pataphysics, contact the Collège de ’Pataphysique in Paris. This novel does not involuntarily represent any impossible or imagined views of the Collège.
Any resemblance to When People Go Plonf by Joanna Fatless is purely transcendental.