Fan Fiction Predicted That Undeniable Incoherent Garden Gnome Decided Against Surgery Despite Mother's Advice. Consciousness is a deceit propagated by those who would have you buy their overpriced mattresses. I was to learn, much later, that my mother, a strange creature whose sanity had been permanantly compromised after a tragic incident with a goose inspector and a fire hazard, and about 23 years of alcoholism, was at that time labouring under the intriguing misapprehension that badgers had a penchant for angel delight. <br><br>