Twickley, England - when Hiroshi Nakadai is studying for his PhD in Linguistics he comes into contact with a powerful and evil force... His supervisor, Professor Mutton, has been enslaved by The Great Word: an intergalactic beinghell-bent on conquering the world. When Nakadai becomes a professor, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Using his phenomenalintelligence, he decides to fight the Great Word-and confuse the hell out of his PhD student, Nicola, along the way... "By turns brilliant and knowingly absurd."- Stephen Gallagher, author of The Authentic William James. "Kurt Vonnegut meets Ann Quin meets Douglas Adams."- Rob Magnuson Smith, author of Scorper. "Nakadai is strange, erudite and above all, hilarious."- Charlie Gere, Professor of MediaTheory and History at Lancaster University.