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The Monkey-Banana Reduction
Heathen Short #8
Author
Watson Thomas
Translator
First Edition
January 8, 2026
Heathen Short
January 8, 2026
Refreshed
Pages
78
Heathen Genera
Satireality
ISBN
979-8-90075-008-8
Monkeys and bananas, that’s what I reduce the world to.
Fractals.
Repeating patterns.
If everything in the binary world can be reduced to a zero or a one, then fractal-up: to what can we reduce everything in this reality, this now?
I am a _______ and that is a _______.
I am a zero and that is a one.
I am a monkey and that is a banana.
Monkeys and bananas.
Everything is monkeys and bananas.
Behold: THE MONKEY-BANANA REDUCTION.
I am a monkey and when I wake up in the morning I roll out of banana and take a banana, then read the banana while sipping a banana before leaving my banana to drive my banana to (capital B) Banana to earn bananas to buy bananas to wear bananas to eat bananas — and if I don’t go to (capital B) Banana to earn bananas, then the monkeys will come and seize my banana, the bananas, and all the bananas.
Watson Thomas — failed filmmaker, ailurophile, psychonaut — unleashes a fractal scream from the edge of oblivion, reducing our obsessions to the primal binary of monkey and banana. Part psychedelic odyssey, part Appalachian war whoop, part consumerist koan, “The Monkey–Banana Reduction” morphs parody into metamodern semi-autobiographical absurdism. Recursive, self-aware, and achingly sincere, this looping, media-saturated hallucination shatters the monolithic wall of our false fetishes — those bananas we hoard as proof of worth — and summons us to a wilderness epiphany where smashing idols is the only path to genuine freedom. A mythic riff on group consciousness and self-surrender, “The Monkey–Banana Reduction” stands as both fierce indictment and urgent invitation: tear down your altars, embrace absurdity, and awaken to life unchained . . . or, you know, don’t.
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“'The Monkey-Banana Reduction' is abstract art in literary form: not always coherent, but frequently profound and never boring.”
Catherine Langrehr
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Check out our transcribed excerpt from a recent conference call we Heathens had with Watson Thomas and Sheboygan Minnetonka: Heathenry: Thoughts on The Monkey-Banana Reduction
IndieReader rated “The Monkey-Banana Reduction” 4.5 out of 5 stars and selected it as “IR Approved”!
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Contents
Heathenry: Thoughts on the Text
“The Monkey-Banana Reduction“
An Inconsequential Exploit of Kapitän Schadenfreude: “The Lumen Frame”
“A Conversation with Cassavetes”
+/- Fragments
“The Monkey-Banana Reduction“
An Inconsequential Exploit of Kapitän Schadenfreude: “The Lumen Frame”
“A Conversation with Cassavetes”
+/- Fragments
Praise
“‘Monkey-Banana‘ is a great toilet read.” —Justin Litton
“One might expect that a book written while the author was on an LSD high might be less than coherent, perhaps even a bit unhinged . . . If you are looking for a coherent moral or philosophical argument, or a story with a beginning, middle, and end, ‘The Monkey-Banana Reduction‘ is not the right book for you. It’s far more of an abstract artistic exploration . . . it’s well-suited for those who need some barely controlled but surprisingly thoughtful chaos to send their thinking into new and interesting places . . . ‘The Monkey-Banana Reduction‘ is abstract art in literary form: not always coherent, but frequently profound and never boring.” —Catherine Langrehr, IndieReader (Read full review.)
Details
The Monkey-Banana Reduction
Heathen Short #8Published: January 8, 2026
Format: Paperback
Retail: $8.88
ISBN-13: 9798900750088
Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.192 inches
Weight: 4.1 oz
Cover: Matte Finish
Interior: Black & White on Cream Paper
Pages: 78 (+2 POD)
Language: English
Annotations: 4 Footnotes
Illustrations: 4
- Title Page
- Heathenry Flame
- Honorary Heathen Headshot: Watson Thomas
- End Title
- Fiction / Absurdist
- Fiction / Satire
- Fiction / Form / Essays
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