![]() Dave's one hobby, the one thing that staves off the existential dread that is There, is drawing. This is a book that ultimately is about looking. Everyone learns to accept a little bit of chaos in their lives.Įxcept that that's not quite the end. Finally, with their society starting to break down a little, they attach the beard (and Dave) to a series of balloons that float away over the sea. Here's stylists are conscripted to shape the beard in a series of scaffolds, another initiative that fails-hair does what it wants to do, after all. ![]() All efforts to curb it, first by himself and then by exploitative researchers and the government, fail. One day, Dave woke up with a beard that will not stop growing. To do otherwise would be to invite the unknown, specifically the unknown chaos of There, the dark and frightening land beyond the sea. ![]() It follows an unfortunate turn of events for Dave, a typical worker on the island of Here, a land known for its fastidious attention to order, detail, cleanliness, and predictability. Stephen Collins's fable about a tidy society menaced by the otherness of a man's beard that mysteriously would not stop growing, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, is notable for the extreme dryness of its wit, the detailed but lively nature of the drawing, and the nihilism at its center. ![]()
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