Life, the Universe and Goats

Welcome to the world’s greatest comic novel byEsias Ryder, ‘Life, The Universe & Goats’, a political satire that takesthe wee-wee from Life’s hardest themes — the Pain of Life, a Life of Pain, theMeaning of Life, the Universe, the Deleterious Effects of English Literature,Penal Privatisation, the Electrocution of Liberals, and forgetting MaryPoppins.  Life’s hardest themes — hardest sub-genus outthere: poetic comedy — and hardest tense — present.  ‘So stiffen the sinews and the groins for a sorrytale of scandal, sexual depravity, betrayal and extreme money laundering —treacherous traits that elevate the English goat to the eyes of a wondrousworld.’  England rots under the dictatorship of ElPresidenté Tony Blair. England’s flagship privatised prison of Lower Springwoodrots a sinking ship under the governorship of Archibald Hornblower ‘Gerbil’James.  Lodge’ Ladies’ Night in Chapter 3 is a tribute(viz Porterhouse Blue) to Tom Sharpe, after whom this novel is dedicated.  Popular phrases from poems and novels,Shakespeare, especially Hamlet, and from song lyrics, are assumed recognisableas not to warrant references.