Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins

And all this writer’s similes could turn smiling gurus into frowning nuns if it weren’t for the shear bombast, originality, and dedication at being the best similesmith in the smiling and frowning universe. Putting brass tacks on the track only speeds up the process. A compulsion, maybe, that can only tire itself with endless invention.

It’s almost like when you trip in a pun marathon and can’t stop scraping your bloody knees along the Tartan track-you just keep on the fuck punning for the fun of it.

Robbins dipped that implement in lead and swung it crushing to every clause with or without a purpose.

Sure, I’ve read novels that used simile as a crutch, but Mr. I can’t remember saying that about anything else. Instructive, too especially since this is one of two works I’m reading as preparation for my own second-person novella. I’m not sure if this book had to be written in this POV, but it sure as hell makes it interesting. The fact that this entire novel is written in second person makes this line genius. When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, though ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced you are facing the Weekend From Hell.You don't know the half of it!Obviously, before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses.Over these fateful three days, you are jerked from one trial and one revelation to another forced to confront things ranging from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space.The weekend isn't from Hell, it's from Sirius the Dog Star.And by the time it's over, the glide path of your destiny has been knocked widely askew.You may or may not be a better person, you may or may not have found love, the world may or may not be a different place, yet cosmic connections have been established that cannot be broken.And as an indication of just how strange it has all become, you - prosaic, materialistic, irritable you - are left with a complete understanding of the surprisingly serious phrase 'half asleep in frog pajamas'.This may not seem like a great line.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins