Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously

Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously is a collection of short essays that are pithy, aphoristic, and full of fresh insights and witticisms in the manner of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes, Eduardo Galeano’s Book of Embraces, or Pascal’s Pensées.  This collection of short essays and alternative versions is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminder that language, self, and reality are based on social consensus, an unspoken agreement to see the world in a particular, limited way. By breaking open these conventions, Colourless Green Ideas reveals the possibilities inherent in the human story. To sleep furiously is to dream. Once we know we are dreaming, we begin to consider the possibility of waking up.

"Mark Frutkin has distilled his meditations on language, reason, myth and mystery into nuggets to tickle you into new ways of thinking.” – Mark Fried, translator of Galeano.