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ABOUT THIS BOOK | CONTENTS
[COVERS]
The Indigenous Tribesmen of
Neverland
The novel celebrates the joys of Austin slacker living. It continues the narrative of hippie Walker Underwood, in the 30th year of his age as he is confronted by maturity in the context of being in a love relationship with a high school girl, Laura. We move in the lush spring of May-July romance in a low rent Tortilla Flat community.
Another important character is Walker’s friend Wild Bill, a messianic avatar, owner of three dogs, a Melville figure. There are the songs and rants of Laura’s friend Weesa, a punk Lolita. The trans-generational cross fertilization of inspiration goes both ways. Together they explore consciousness expanding epiphanies of this generation.
There is an extensive appendix titled A Structural Analysis. This, in a more essay-like format has commentary on Castaneda and Levi-Strauss and a solo theatre piece with production notes that amount to a how-to aesthetic of performance art, but on a deeper more amphictionic level. The four dimensional tesseract is used as a model for this theatre. The appendix continues with developing isomorphisms between the tesseract and several cultural systems (mnemonic automata), I Ching, Sepheroth, to the Totemic Operator of Levi-Strauss. Then there is a story that is a post-modern text growing according to its own rules, generating from a model. The last text of the book is a poem, invoking feelings from understanding the central ideas of the book that are components of the modern zeitgeist.
The biggest story of my generation was the understanding that unfolded from the diffusion of group theory in the later half of the 20th century into disciplines of physics and anthropology. This novel shows that story settling into the mind of the main character, Walker Underwood. The Indigenous Tribesmen of Neverland explores the two concepts of the title: Indigenous tribesmen — natural people of place, ad hoc community of peers, reflecting kinship, structuralism; and Neverland — the Peter Pan Syndrome, of romantic bohemians who refuse to “grow up” and become part of consumer corporate culture. Neverland is also associated with the field quanta of the surface of the light cone, that carry information about the now to senses.
The Indigenous Tribesmen of Neverland is the 9th novel by Lyons. It is Volume 2 of the “My Years of Apprenticeship at Love” sextet. It is the 5th book of that series to be published by Hitmotel Press.
340 pages -- $25 ISBN
0965584275 ISBN-13
978-065584272
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