Hank finds a Hank Williams LP, now deleted, whose cover he remembers. When he was a child, his father had held that album up. He becomes obsessed with the idea of listening to the album again, just once. And the plot thickens, as it must. The hilarity is dense.
Homer begins to talk, but only about smells.
Hank's female companion gives birth to a fully formed midget, who also talks. A congeries of obsessed, repetitive, haunted voices begins to mount. But the ride through Mirror Land is a gas. John Clute is a writer, editor, critic and scholar of science fiction. Reviews and Essays.