I'm going crazy!!!

Intertextuality is quite evident in A Wild Sheep Chase. The whole book is a mishmash of different ideas and obscure references to other texts. It has components of a hard boiled detective novel, but includes metafiction and has a strong feeling of surrealism to it. However, the text feels random to me; all of the mixing that it does makes it feel incoherent and difficult to understand. But it is also random in how it jumps around in the story and randomly adds these strange characters and throws out just the most random stuff. For instance, what is up with the whale’s penis? Or all of a sudden asking the limo driver how many decimal places he know Pi to, or the randomness of having God’s telephone number… Given all that it still somehow works together to bring an entertaining story that has so far kept me guessing.