In this novel-length road story, the female protagonist, who is haunted by an audio hallucination -'twenty ells of linen are worth a coat' - that plays over and over in her mind, escapes from a mental hospital with a young man. This is the story of their journey together.
The hallucinatory words come from a passage in Marx's Das Kapital, but the protagonist knows nothing of that; nor does she understand what they literally mean. After she starts to hear them, she attempts suicide and is then diagnosed as manic and placed in a mental hospital. Unable to stand life in the prison-like...
In this novel-length road story, the female protagonist, who is haunted by an audio hallucination -'twenty ells of linen are worth a coat' - that p...
