What if we were in fact being farmed as food by superintelligent spiders from space? But seriously, this is the story of Alan Gary, and his pilgrimage through life which brought him into direct engagement with the work most Americans refuse to do to feed themselves. As the tale unfolds, we begin to simultaneously experience past, present, and future, along with our narrator, who finds it difficult to separate one from the other, everything leading to Rome, as it were. On his journey he meets several poets, spirits, and angels who help him like Dorothy along the yellow path to the palace of wisdom, generally reached only by excess, and then home once again to hang out talking to the cat by himself after everyone else has vanished. Finally, not only are the borders between moments erased, but those between minds as well, and the narrator is also in constant conversation with himself, and other selves.