Did I read this book or maybe I just dreamed that I did? How do I know I’m not still dreaming that I’m writing this review? Maybe the coffee I’m drinking is my proof that I’m awake and I’m writing this review, because everyone knows how hard it is to sleep when you’re drinking coffee.

These are the tools Pat Clor uses for her juxtaposition of dimensional thinking, her dance through ontological realities, the twist and turn of cyclical logic. Pat Clor masterfully uses a character, Cindy Stark, a 12-year-old girl from an imaginary world to embody her reality in her extraordinary work of literary genius, “The Reason We’re Waiting.” Cindy is Clor’s “Alice” and Pangea is where she lives, in “Wonderland”. Clor is like Lewis Carroll writing his PhD thesis in Parmenides’ Greek philosophy course. How Pat Clor harnesses this amount of mental energy is beyond me, as his writing is so clear and creative that I find it massages my intellect while tickling my imagination. I never would have imagined making the comment “The reason we’re waiting,” at over 770 pages, “flew by.”

Pat Clor created a character who is a janitor at Walmart to narrate his epic story. That in itself has shock value to the reader as to how a janitor can become so consciously self-actualized. The story is a metaphor for fantasy, with fanciful characters running rampant. But the underlying meaning “peels the onion” in the perception of human existence, social and moral values ​​and most aspects of life as we understand it, or rather, how we misinterpret it. Just as Albert Einstein would use the analogy of a man on a train traveling at the speed of light, walking towards the front of the train is actually traveling faster than the speed of light, Pat Clor uses Cindy Stark, his family , the world she lives to represent our ill-conceived human conscience.

It is impossible for me to adequately describe this book, but let me say that it is brilliant and refreshing. To me, “The Reason We’re Waiting” is simply for those who want to gain a better understanding of themselves and their environment. This book, exceptional in its quality, is an excellent choice to start you on that never-ending journey towards the ever-so-elusive Truth.

Buckle up and get ready for the brain ride of your life because Pat Clor doesn’t hold back. “The Reason We’re Waiting” is unabashedly crude at times bordering on the bawdy as Pat Clor reaches out to his readers and no one is immune to his powerful literary license mixed with stormy moments of violence, uncomfortable criticism and disturbing viewing. If you can’t accept it, don’t read it. If you go through it, it will change you. The choice is yours. I would recommend that a disclaimer be signed before reading along with this — Caution: Serious physical and mental reactions may occur. Read “The Reason We’re Waiting” at your own risk.