A preliminary report on a newly-discovered country, its in­habitants and their strange and unfamiliar customs, with some observations appended on matters social, religious, bucolic, identific, scientific, horrific, potentific, meta­phoric, truthful or not, literary and pertaining to the stock exchange or The Irreverence of Relevance

Response to Gerald Gillespie

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A preliminary report on a newly discovered country, its in­habitants and their strange and unfamiliar customs, with some observations appended on matters social, religious, bucolic, identific, scientific, horrific, potentific, meta­phoric, truthful or not, literary and pertaining to the stock exchange
or
The Irreverence of Relevance

Since I know virtually nothing about Cervantua and Pantasanchez, Tristan le Fataliste or that great masterwork, Don Simplissimus and his sidekick Fatso Faustus, I shall endeavour to reveal a few things about a place that is neither a utopia nor a dystopia, neither paradise nor hell, neither above nor below, neither here nor there - just a place beyond nowhere, called Azi­ninia.
I will make some ludic observations on the country, the identity of its inhabitants and the insanity of its writers and critics.