Name: The Quantity Theory of Insanity
ISBN: 9780679750949

Will Self

A collection of short stories explores the possibility that sanity is a commodity in short supply, the afterlife is as mundane as life on earth, and an anthropological expedition could discover a tribe of very boring natives

Together with Five Supporting Propositions

The Quantity Theory of Insanity

Alawander Bouston 

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness.

Full of his trademark jagged-edged satire and dark wit, The Quantity Theory of Insanity is Will Self's highly acclaimed fictional debut. Among the curious and disturbing subjects it deals with are the Ur-Bororo, a superhumanly dull tribe of Amazonian bores; the terrible, seductive secret of Ward 9; the revolutionary possibilities of waiting; and, of course, the Quantity Theory itself, the thesis that to suppress insanity in one part of the population merely causes it to pop up elsewhere . . .

The Quantity Theory of Insanity Together with Five Supporting Propositions