

This collection of suspicious glimpses, transitory disturbances, and apocalypses postponed makes for disorientation and even light-headedness. Readers may feel the need to laugh, but not more than is advisable. Among the assorted hijinks in these pages are a global kangaroo revolution, a fatal duel over a sneeze, spots of melancholy, a telepathic gazebo, various disguises, and a demon awaiting its release from a box of breakfast cereal.