Downtime

Groucho Marx has said, “I wouldn’t belong to any club that would have me as a member,” essentially the protagonist’s credo at the outset of Downtime. Downtime is a layman’s vision of the approaching apocalypse. This dark comic tale is seen through the eyes of hapless Melford Blintze, a literate, sensitive, and timid man who is tormented by private insecurities and the excesses of a vulgar society going to hell. Blintze doesn’t believe the end is near; he believes that it’s in progress. The ...