Just a Couple of Days

Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: 'Uh-oh.' An anonymous interlocutor writes back: 'When?' Blip slyly answers: 'Just a couple of days.' But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain—a molecular biologist—is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans. The virus being tested—cleverly called 'the Pied Piper'—renders its victims incapable of symbolic capacity; that is, incapable of communication. Is this biological weaponry? What would happen if it were let loose on the world? Does a babbling populace pose a threat or provide an opportunity for social evolution?This novel's absurd, larger-than-life characters speak in exuberant prose that is as satirical as it is playful, as full of implications as it is full of mirth. It's no wonder Just a Couple of Days has become an underground cult classic.