Ah, Pook Is Here

Likely only for William Burroughs completists—the writer narrates a despairing tirade against mainstream American ills, framed within a sci-fi apocalyptic context: an organic planet in a symmetrical, monochrome universe. The reassuring, lilting, pensioner’s voice contrasts with the cool despair and horror of the words. Pook the turkey, Burroughs’ representative; suicide as a response to a compromised life. The theorem-like clarity of the animation makes it watchable.