The Quickest of Us

"And perhaps our frames could hardly bear it. If we had a keen sense of normal life about us, it would be like watching the grass grow or hearing the squirrel's heartbeat, and we should die of that roar that lies at the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."

The Quickest of Us is the story of the dissipation of a friendship as told by one of the friends. The narrator describes a series of events with his closest friend during their final year at university, which lead to the narrator's loss of everything he holds dear. What the novel seeks to reveal and consider is the depth and level of the friendship these two characters have and lose while trying to begin their lives together--apart from school and their families, without any clear path toward what it is they want. Thematically, the novel has to do with re-creation, with the desire to be wholly remade. Set in pre-Grunge Seattle, it is a cyber-novel of the pre-cyber age.

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