Fartburger pretended to be unaffected. He earned a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology, studied a group of aboriginal peoples in Venezuela for six years (returning to the United States only after the hallucinations replaced his memory with a 3.5 megapixel camera that was always on) and wrote THE definitive book on spirituality in the early years of the XXIst Century. He was popular with young and old readers, his parents, and the heads of state of numerous third-world countries.
Fartburger’s thesis was this:
There is no god but atom and Quark is its prophet.No one knew what that meant, nor did they understand the three hundred and thirty-three pages in which he developed the idea. This pleased him.
Quark, aside from being a subatomic particle, is cheese, as well as software. Very few people knew this trinitarian view of subatomic physics, least of whom were the physicists and cheese-makers Fartburger had interviewed for the book.
