What Had been You Pondering? Oh, I Get It, You Weren’t by VHYHN QWYHX VHYRZ
What Had been You Pondering? is infinite leisure on your mind … Like all good satire, it’s the form of humor that makes you assume.
What do you get once you take classical types of satire, Greek tragedy, theatre of the absurd, philosophy, wordplay and poetry and mash them collectively to remark upon the present state of life in America?
Effectively, it may solely be one factor — the distinctive and complicated work titled What Had been You Pondering? Oh, I Get It. You Weren’t!: An Apology for Pondering, An American Satire-Noir (a Solo Reader’s/Single’s Guide Model), Patriate Our Political Events and Quash Ptyranny & Youngster Abuse Worldwide, a Guide and Novel-Play by VHYHN QWYHX VHYRZ™.
On this four-part “novel-play,” we’re launched to THINKING and THOUGHT, co-defendants accused of a myriad of crimes and inconveniences towards America and People. In VHYRZ’s world, THINKING and THOUGHT are the origins of a social illness that threatens the unity of nationwide character and the contentment of its residents. THINKING and THOUGHT sow discord and dissent. They lead folks’s minds down a myriad of circuitous and digressive paths, making a endless starvation for but extra pondering and thought. They’ll even be the impetus for selections and actions which may be deemed illegal, unethical or un-American.
Just like the fruit of the Tree of Information, THINKING and THOUGHT are the supply of sin, strife and sorrow.
THINKING AND THOUGHT ON TRIAL
Testifying towards THINKING and THOUGHT are SPACE, TIME and DIMENSION — none of whom comprehend the defendants’ worth. Aligned for and towards are teams of protesters and counter-protesters exterior the courtroom partitions. It quickly turns into obvious, although, that the actual foe is the (inaptly named) American justice system itself.
However this plotline is just a framework to lend construction to VHYRZ’s explorations by an unlimited and wild jungle of imaginative thought experiments the place the private and the political intersect many times over questions of legislation and ethics, unity and liberty, custom and evolution, rights and accountability. VHYRZ makes use of two most important autos to take action: satire (through which absurdist extremes reveal weaknesses) and wordplay (through which the language itself reveals novel insights).
In his thought experiments, VHYRZ attracts upon private expertise, demonstrating how a sobering household courtroom case involving youngster abuse may end up in neither justice nor restitution for the victims. He factors to examples within the public area as properly: the dissolution of Roe v. Wade protections, the Supreme Courtroom’s current ruling on presidential immunity, the rise of AI in curation of knowledge and decision-making, amongst different up to date points. The whole lot is honest recreation as VHYRZ pokes and prods on the nature and function of fact within the courtroom of opinion, self-governance in a democracy beneath siege, and escalating vitriol in a dwindling area for logical, civil debate.
A BOOK FOR ACTIVE, NOT PASSIVE, READERS
Our forged of characters takes up numerous philosophical and political positions all through the work, maintaining readers engaged with absurd humor, poetic interludes and witty turns of phrase. The courtroom proceedings are waylaid by digression and hijacked by pontification. Arguments are taken to their limits and finish in a tangled unraveling of logic and sanity. Issues don’t bode properly for our heroic duo as their protection testimony is pushed additional and additional again and tempers develop rancorous.
Alongside the best way, we encounter densely packed layers of which means, riddles to unravel, Biblical and classical references to search for, and unconventional typography to navigate. You would learn this guide a number of instances and all the time uncover one thing you missed. Maybe because of this it additionally is available in a “twin reader” format, the place it may be learn aloud as a type of dialogue between two folks. (It even is available in “grandparent” editions with bolder, easier-to-read fonts.) No matter version, What Had been You Pondering? is infinite leisure on your mind.
Briefly, that is no idle seashore learn, neither is it meant as such. Like all good satire, it’s the form of humor that not solely makes you snort; it makes you assume.
Concerning the Writer:
Now comes VHYHN QWYHX VHYRZ, VQV, aka VANQUISHED VERSE: poet, playwright, actor; great-great-grandson of an Angolan, enslaved by seize and dropped at America; nice grandson of a navy enlisted American; grandson of a Church of God in Christ founding pastor; son of Chicago’s nice First Modification advocate and treasured avenue evangelist; father of two sensible offspring from our Cherokee, Choctaw, and Osage matriarchy; UChicago alumnus, and, knowledgeable sculptor in Therapeutic massage SculptingSM, therapeutic arts and crafts: to defend the American’s case for DEMOCRACY. We could depart to ruination OUR nation “…of the folks, by the folks, and for the folks…,” to perish from Earth, howsoever our nation endures? I’m appointed to fix our bodies, and enhance performance. I wrote this satire, to fix our nation.
Publish Date: 07/23/2024
Style: Politics, Satire
Writer: VHYHN QWYHX VHYRZ
Web page Rely: 200 pages
ISBN: 9798989967315