Jealous Haters Book Club: Modelland, chapter eight, “Welcome to T-DOD”

I’ll admit it. I’ve read ahead. And you know what? I’m still loving this book. [Ed. Spoiler: I will keep on loving it.] I still think there have been missteps, largely regarding who the appropriate audience for this book was, but I’m still loving how absolutely bananas this thing is. Our narrator welcomes us into this chapter, asking us if we can smell, feel, and taste T-DOD, and I’m going to not put that in here because I feel a little sexually harassed by the “ooooh” in that part, so we’ll move on to where the narrator describes the sound: Think about the loudest, most riotous crowd you’ve ever been in…and quadruple it. Then multiply that by the power of ten! In other words, it’s as loud as people whispering backstage during a quiet scene. The whole world is flooding to Metopia to see the delectable spectacle unfold. It takes place all over the planet, of course—on the sexy beaches of Terra BossaNova, on the strip of Striptown, round the Taj Gardens in Chakra—but there’s nowhere…