The Cabinet is roughly a book about ‘Symptomers’ or people who have weird powers or things happen to them, that one of the characters think is the next stage of human evolution. Some of them are people who skip forward in time, others who fall into torpors for months or years at a time, or even others who have weird things happen to their bodies like Ginko trees growing out of their finger. None of them are quite normal and the vast majority of them are quite weird or unsettling. Continue reading