RARRRRRR! Shortly after arriving in the new brain, Lester buys a motorcycle and has a cosmic time until he comes to the Chasm of Existential Doubt. Though he survives the crash, he’s now ripe for indoctrination into the Psychosis Liberation Movement.
Destroy the Universe!!!! Destroy! Death!!!! A-A-AAAAAAAAAAAAHH!
Despite the Synapse Strike and the takeover of the brain's television network at gunpoint, the PLM collapses of its own insanity after its demands for the suicide of the organism are thwarted by secret agents of Cosmic Unity.
What a Trip! Driven mad by the revolutionaries, Lester hurls himself from the television network’s high-rise office building, but secret agent Pablo zaps him with “Let not this sparrow fall!” Pablo and sidekick Pedro then send Lester to the Cerebral Cortex on a mission for Cosmic Unity.
So This is the Cerebral Cortex! At Last!
At Nerve Cell Building 53 Lester is introduced to the Board of Directors of this organism. The Board has been converted to Cosmic Unity but says it needs Lester to assume direct control of the master human. “Only an outside organism can do this sort of thing,” they tell him, and reluctantly Lester agrees.
Journal Entry Lester comes to as businessman and CEO Akard Drearstone on his fortieth birthday. But in the aftermath of the revolutions and counterrevolutions in his brain, Akard is burned out, able to write only messy approximations of his realizations, and, consumed by despair, considers killing himself.
Sleep
He falls asleep instead.
Conference Rooms A and B The next morning Akard comes to work as if nothing had happened. Yet one of his puppy subordinates, full of plans for his own department’s expansion, won’t leave him alone, and Akard, reeling with memories of Cosmic Unity, lashes out at him with a knife.
What About My Bike!!!!
The rest of the Akard’s colleagues force him out as CEO and tell him to leave the country in return for their covering up the murder. Akard heads to South America on a motorcycle but is stopped for speeding on I-35, somewhere in a Midwest that looks suspiciously like the Southwest.
Boom! The arresting officer takes it into his head to fire a few rounds into Akard’s top of the line BMW motorcycle.
Police Car
In the deep night Akard knows he's fated to pilot the dead officer’s cruiser south through Texas, through the Bayou City and on to Freeport on the coast, where he buys an ultralight airplane with a plan to flee to Mexico.
What’s All This Fuss About Anyway? Akard is boarded in midair and vigorously loved by a fetching damsel muse, who proceeds to enter Dimension Z by way of Akard’s propeller. Akard loses control of the aircraft--then realizes he doesn’t “need all this hassle.” Just letting the plane crash, he wonders: “What’s all this fuss about anyway?”
I Must Seek … To … Understand my Own Body, in … All its Infinite Permutations!
With no other options left to him, Akard founds a rock band, but the CIA targets him for assassination midway through his ultimate eight-hour concert.
Akard! It’s Me! I’ve Come Back from Dimension Z! Shot to pieces, Akard survives as a zombie, but all is explained by his lovely airplane muse, who seduces him in his hospital bed, then leaps in front of a passing car to head back to Dimension Z.
You Have Come to the End of Your Soul- Shell, at Radius Infinity!
Abandoned and exiled, drunk in the alleys of downtown Dallas, reeling after reading every book Aldous Huxley ever wrote, Akard is given a chance to enter a stranger’s brain--one more time.
