"Cylinder" novel excerpt

 Knives' other play, "Bambi vs Hamlet", written via Ouija Board by spirit-medium Slavoj Ganja who deferred all the credit to Knives and it was such a hit in the underground, this "written from beyond the grave" gimmick was such an attention-getter that it had not just a cult following but a cult religion based on it, like some kind of codex. Bambi and Hamlet were the Jungian archetypes governing the engendering of the master-slave dialectic in society, and its molecular proliferation like weeds or like urban sprawl, and Bambi's submission to Hamlet is the basic dynamic of this sexuality of the architectonic within society, this apparatus of capture and the drama queen antics of the ruling classes. This dialectic of sex subverted the irony of stupidity and made everyone cheer for an encore, they wanted more, oh boy did they want Bambi vs Hamlet 2! Cecilia was going to play Bambi in the new sequel production which was in collaboration with Ye Wretches, an entirely subversive avant-garde theater duo, known for "WOLVES HIDE" and "DEER THOT", both racy all-caps titles with lots of press junkets from all kinds of indie outlets and of course Slavoj Ganja paid only in weed table tapped the whole thing in one night. Lots of talent there, Gilles thought to himself. Ye Wretches had been getting rave revues from the get go (from some rather petty bourgeois critics, thought Steve to himself, bitterly, privately, ruefully). They were interesting but Gilles couldn't help but look forward to the days when the true mission, the properly utopian mission of the avant-garde is redeemed and re-unveiled throughout the scene when he debuts his masterwork, the play "CYLINDER", into which he can really shoot his biggest possible creative wad. Cylinder was so impenetrably avant-garde nobody ever wanted it out in public, like the scandal of a transvestite in the eyes of a kind of moral majority who spend their days and nights praying for more sexual discretion. It was a pest, it was game over for Steve's' career as a playwright, as well. Him and his damn play were completely blacklisted, shunned, like a transexual hooker who wants to be a priest in the Catholic Church. It wasn't necessarily taboo to associate with him for other reasons, but anytime he brought up that fucking play, just don't listen to him he'll go on for hours, like some tranny raver on ecstasy and you can't excuse yourself from the situation because you've just gotten too high off some fentanyl laced PCP.