Peter and Dennis ended "Easy Rider" by getting their characters killed, which was only to symbolize the uselessness of their trip, the "trip", and their spiritual bankruptcy in that they erroneously thought they could find in Florida what they'd failed to locate in their own Hollywood back lots. They should have known better. Dorothy of Kansas had been spreading the gospel for years.

Frank Baum neglected to say that some people have better back yards than others.

UNENDING WONDERS OF A SUBATOMIC WORLD is an angst-ridden, slap-happy, run if you can't leave 'em laughing inquiry on the enigmas of mad coincidence and improbable meanings that spin off the Great Wheel as it bumps along toward whatever end has captured its fancy. And while along for the ride, let's at least have what fun we can before one is rolled over and under, though how and when that may happen is relatively illusory as there is no up or down absolutely.

Yet still it hurts.

Read about the characters, the plot, and the author's rigorous research.

THE JOURNEY

The whole point of this is that if one stands not at the epi-center of the universe, and if all is in permanent flux, then one had better catch hold of a good flotation device.

That is the journey.

That is the search.

If someone had suggested to Chance that she grab on to change as her flotation device, she would have said how would she know her rubber duck inner tube might not turn into a killer whale.