Felix's on again mostly off again relationship with Sofia distracting him from his completing important projects leads him to further losses and some surprises. During this time he makes several trips to various places in Mexico. rawn from notebooks spanning more than half a century addressed to an alter ego bearing the curious name John Onion, the entries depict the narrator's unabashed self-confession of his addictions, his sometimes perverse sexual inclinations, his libidinous observation of what he considers the somewhat curious moves and manners of women and his other planetary travelers, his readings in a wide range of subjects related to human behavior and biology, cosmology, physics and psychology, what he has learned often provokes comments on the curious, peculiar habits, manners, interests and behaviors of his fellow primates audaciously claiming to be the wisest of the wise while the mote of cosmic dust they mismanage and exploit appears to be crumbling at their feet and tumbling upon their collective, feeble-minded heads.
