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"A vivid story of gods and fools, enmeshed in the absurdity that is humanity, which grips you on the very first page and refuses to release you until the final, heart-rending line." – Myrddin
Pisspote’s Progress
Pisspote's Progress is a brilliantly
uncompromising satire on the values
of 'modern'
society. Pisspote, a jester
awakened from the mists of Celtic legend,
potters through
Britain in the near future in a
vain attempt to find personal salvation. In the
process,
he comes across the worst horrors of a
society run purely for the sake of individual
gain.
In this powerful and humorous look at selfishness
taken to its logical extreme, where
people, animals
and plants have value only as commodities, one man's
personal anguish
and search for peace shines through.
"A load of subversive clap-trap." – Queen Magrob
"Hey man, power to the flowers, man." – Gawain 'The Nude' Carnwennan
"Just leave me alone." – Suleman Pisspote
Book Details
Genre: Social Satire
Extent: 384 pages
Special First Edition Price: $25.95 (Very limited number left)
ISBN: 1-4505-8330-X
Written in British English
A new hardcopy edition is planned for later in 2011.
Synopsis
Pisspote wakens in a neolithic long barrow, after a sleep of several decades. He is bitterly disappointed at still being alive and curses his way out of the tomb into a wood. He soon remembers his father, whom he blasphemes against, and the Celtic gods, whom he beseeches to free him from his curse.
He overhears a celebration in a stone circle and goes to investigate. He meets Queen Magrob, King Nurkopf and the princes. He saves Bedwyr from sacrifice and questions him about the nature of this society as they walk down into a valley full of salt works. They meet slaves happy in their work and Pisspote admires the contentment on everyone's face. He also learns that Queen Magrob had managed to get time to tick backwards.
Characters and Themes
This is a contemporary satirical novel. Let me take you back to the myth of King Arthur. He is, apparently, waiting with his knights under a hill for the clarion call to rise again and save England in its hour of greatest need. Well, instead of King Arthur, this book follows the exploits of one Suleman Pisspote the Great, King Arthur's jester.
