Pleasantries From the Skyward Side of Daydreaming: An Existentialist Memoir

Pleasantries From the Skyward Side of Daydreaming invites readers to follow the author on the dizzying and eccentric journey of losing one's self on the arduous climb to the age of 25. A collection of essays and explorations that cover topics from the pain of losing yourself to meditations on dreams and faux realities, to the very real sense of loss and confusion marking the quarter-life turn. Part memoir, part confession, part mad ramblings, Pleasantries presents readers with a foggy mirror from which they may be able to relate to the uncertainties of life on the edge of adulthood, laugh at the author's misfortunes, while pondering all the while what it means to exist in the strange and savage modern era.This book is Gonzo philosophy, unpermitted sociology, questionable psychology and all together a labour of love and loathing. The question of what it means to be is ever-present and never answered. It aligns with the reader to answer it themselves while the author may exist by their side in a milieu of insanity we all may collectively revel in.