Introductory Essay to the Flora Indica (1855)

As a child, Brewster LeBlanc believed that Paradise existed in a place called Oz, occupied by a cowardly lion, a talking scarecrow, a tin man, a wily wizard and a bunch of munchkins. That conception changes the day he and his playmate Shirley are playing doctor/nurse in her grandpa’s attic. His discovery that day launches him on a Casanova-like journey through the bedrooms of countless women from our great cities of the East to our sun-kissed beaches of the West, soaking up feminine concupiscence like a giant dehydrated sponge until that quest is ended by a life-sucking siren, leaving his life a shambles until he is rescued by the real woman of his dreams.