What has changed in the past four decades? Me, of course, but then so too has our society and culture and that, I think, is the point. All I can say is that what I liked in the 1970-80s is not at nearly the same as what captivates me now. is Bingo Pajama, a mysterious Jamaican man with a coveted stock of jasmine and swarm of bees that follows him everywhere.I read Jitterbug Perfume about 35 years after it was written and more than 40 years after I was first introduced to Tom Robbins’ work. This effort collides with a battle to recreate an intoxicating perfume based on beets that involves Priscilla, a local “genius waitress,” Madame Devalier, the scion of a New Orleans perfume shop, and the LeFever Parfumarie of Paris. As Alobar and Kudra figure out how to arrest the aging process and “dematerialize,” their paths converge in the present day where a similar desire to cheat death is explored at a Seattle-based foundation led by Wiggs Dannyboy. Their journey leads them to the Bandaloops, an ancient tribe who have mastered immortality, as well as the goat-god Pan, whose own existence is threatened by more fashionable deities. In his wanderings, he meets Kudra, an Indian girl trying to escape her own death, and the two become soulmates.
At the end of the first millennium A.D., King Alobar of Bohemia rejects his fated demise to search for the answer to eternal life. And habits can be broken” (251).Jitterbug Perfume recounts a 1,000-year quest for immortality, with plenty of stops along the way to discuss beets and bees and scents and sex. He tells Priscilla, “The universe does not have laws. Wiggs has more to say on a vast variety of subjects, such as zippers, perfume, the ’60s, freedom, and happiness, though his main subject is immortality. Priscilla has a difficult time believing the story, though she recognizes the bottle in the story as the one in her own possession. Wiggs says that Alobar told him all of his secrets but swore him to secrecy about just one-the recipe to K23.
Alobar entered prison as a 46-year-old man named Albert Barr, but in prison he became depressed and began to age. It seems Alobar spent time with Albert Einstein and posed as a janitor to sabotage contemporary scientific efforts to prolong human life. He talks about Alobar, who is presently locked in the state prison in Concord, Massachusetts, where they met as fellow prisoners.
At the Last Laugh Foundation, Wiggs Dannyboy and Priscilla make love, while Wiggs talks of his past and his work in immortality.
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