by Percival Everett
Full of mathematical and literalist humor. Dr. Wala Kitu is a mathematician who studies nothing. He contemplates and searches for nothing. “I have not found it… I work very hard and wish that I could say I had nothing to show for it.”
He’s recruited by a supervillain to break into Fort Knox, where the villain believes they will find nothing. Kitu goes along with the plan in spite of, as well as because of, the likelihood that nothing is likely to come of it. This is the kind of joke we get over & over. And I love it!
I have read Everett’s ERASURE and this made me similarly laugh out loud. JAMES I found to be a disappointment.
Tytania 