“ Krohn combines philosophy, fantasy, and contemporary criticism in a way that has predecessors in the Menippean satires of antiquity, Voltaire or Italo Calvino. People start transforming and changing realities as soon as they drift into each other’s sphere of influence. Just meeting someone new is enough for a shift in reality. Strange, surprising, and inexplicable experiences unite the members of the Fluctuating Reality Club.Īnything – even the accumulation of a pile of black dust in a house – can derail a person and make them doubt the permanence of a universal and equal reality. The Bee Pavilion is a building of stories.

He gets to know many of the frequenters of the Bee Pavilion, and also Lahja, the hearing impaired janitor who battles disorder and entropy daily. To his own surprise, the narrator of The Bee Pavilion joins the Fluctuating Reality Club. The amateur theater company Heart & Liver and Hecuba’s Porno Shop also operated in the Bee Pavilion. These include The Promoters of Municipal Science, The Nasal Twang Speakers, The Society for Water Jet Ski Competition, The Club of Non-Human Persons, The Cynics, The Luddite Club, and the Lipographs.

It hosts within the shelter of its bricks walls various associations, swarms. It is one of the few old buildings in the city, and also under threat of demolition. The Bee Pavilion is a former support center for the psychically ill. Rights sold: Denmark, Jensen & Dalgaard Japan, Shinhyōron Sweden, Kabusa Reading material: Finnish original, English sample, Swedish translation An intelligently humorous song of rejoicing about the strange, defining characteristics of existence.

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