The Chanterelle Chronicles: Gofer’s Paradox

Are digital technologies making politics impossible ? Rhetorical question. The second tome of The Chanterelle Chronicles is meant to be a satirical response to a rhetorical statement masquerading as the inaugural question of The Nine Dots Prize, a demonstrably regional literary competition intended for an academic audience, preferred but not officially limited to the ivory tower circuit of southeastern UK. The second tome also serves as an introduction to The Chronicles philosophical dissertation. One that seeks to be an original cognitive exercise in response to ancient societal issues. An exercise whose resolution will invite the reader to construct a historical and logistical framework to effectively address the concepts presented to him in the subsequent volumes of the series. The second tome ends where the first began; with the expansion of an ancient Scandinavian myth; one with a contemporary bent. The protagonist of this latest installment of the myth faces his own paradox. One which is strikingly similar in purpose and intent to the paradox hidden between the lines of the inaugural question: The Paradox of Impossible; Gofer’s Paradox. Empires come and go. Chanterelles are timeless.