The summary The axle factory
Ian Banks
Aspen factory
Frances Coldheim in the attic of his house built the Aspen Factory – a device consisting of a dial and traps, where he launches a wasp, and from where she crawls, it depends on what death she will die. F. consults with the Factory, brings her victims – rats, gulls, dragonflies.
F. is not registered, he does not study anywhere, however he reads books from his father’s library at home. In his childhood he had a terrible incident, which he knows only from his father’s stories: a bulldog named Old Sal bit off his genitals and forever disfigured him. After that, of course, the dog was killed, but the boy became angry with the whole world, he begins to take revenge.
The father is a liar and paranoid – constantly puts some experiences in his office, which he keeps locked up all the time. F. wants to get there.
Mother F. – the second wife of her father – Agnes K., came only once: to give birth
F. killed three of his men: his cousin Blythe for killing his rabbits (he put a viper in his leg prosthesis when Blythe slept), his younger brother Paul, because he was born at the time when Old Sal mutilated him. F. decided that the spirit of the SS moved to Paul, and the names are very similar (walking with Paul, he came across an air bomb and told the child that it was a bell, and it was necessary to strike him properly so that he rang. heard the explosion), cousin Esmeralda just for balance – 2 children husband. sex, therefore, it was necessary and. sex of someone to kill (made a huge snake and launched it along with E.).
Brother F., Eric, went mad when he was studying honey at the University. practice. He saw the brains of a child devouring worm larvae, and with him a seizure occurred. Eric began to set fire to dogs and feed the children with worms. He was placed in the clinic, but he escaped from there. Throughout the book he hides, calls home to talk with F., rolls hysterics. At
At this time, F. penetrates into the father’s office and finds there the tiny male genitalia, which are checked by making wax, male hormones and tampons. He runs to his father in a rage and demands that he explain to him what it all means. It turns out that F. is not Francis, but Frances, that is, a girl. When he was bitten by the SS, his father saw an excellent opportunity for experimentation, as well as a way to reduce the female factor in his life. Male hormones he pinned in food, so F. had a stubble, and there were no critical days.
“Now it turns out that there was nothing to revenge, there was a lot of deceit… now it turns out that all the way I was a jester… each of us in his personal Factory can assume that the corridor has already been selected and the trap has slammed, that we are moving the intended route to one or another inevitable destiny – but just one word, a look, enough to stumble, and the golden palace turns into a ditch, and the rat maze – into a green street. The final path is all one, but the route is partly selectable, in part predetermined – everyone has his own and different I thought my trap had slammed shut many years ago, but it turns out that all this time I just crawled on the dial and only now the hatch creaks, only now the real path begins. “
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