Word: nightworld
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...Each adventure began with the boy Nemo in his hallucinogenic nightworld, provided some vision or threat, and ended with him waking up startled in bed at home. McCay must have taken inspiration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the publishing sensation of the early 1900s. Nemo is quite like Dorothy Gale, less invigorated than intimidated by this fantastic world, and usually wanting to get back home. ("I don't like this one little tiny bit," he says, "not one tiny weeney...
...could call Clockers a detective story. There's a detective and there are bad guys, some of them detectives too, some not. There is also a crime that needs solving, which is a slight oddity in "Dempsy," a shabby, 24-hour-a-day nightworld located between Newark and Jersey City. Dempsy's crimes, mostly involving drugs, accumulate in the streets like garbage, but usually they don't require solving, just hosing away. There's nothing mysterious about what's going...
Such a book might have been an eloquent attack on the insect society that civilization sometimes threatens to become. But the author is almost never in control for longer than a paragraph or two. Burroughs cannot sustain his nightworld, as Joyce did in sections of Ulysses, and as Novelist Ralph Ellison did in the whole of that remarkable book, Invisible...
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