Zone of the interior

The hero and narrator of this warm, hilarious, and satiric odyssey into the hospital cor- ridors and mentalities of established madness, is a Chicago writer fed up with America and exiled in London. Urged by his friends to seek psycho- therapy to break his writer’s block. Bell begins the journey into his zone of the interior” and the world of the charismatic, miracle-making Scottish guru Dr. Willie Last, who deliberately thrusts him over the edge into schizophrenia. Willie Last is also a Western lm fan, and needs Sid Bell to be his sidekick in the Gun ght at OK Corral” fantasies he indulges in. At Meditation Manor. A free-for-all schizophrenic circus, Bell finally penetrates the spiritual ionosphere of Fashionable lunacy with some of the goo er sorts of mysticism Su sm. Gypsy palm reading. And even as an urban shaman” with healing powers. In practice. It is overrun by zany Americans who turn the church into a mixture of Laugh ln” and HeIlzapoppin’.