So Milo gets in the handily provided child-sized electric car, dries through the totally not suspicious and legit magic tollbooth, pays his fare, and is transported to the shattered lands of what was once the kingdom of rhyme and reason
The story then follows Milo as he identifies the central conflict of the missing princesses named, yes you guessed it, Rhyme and Reason, and goes on a quest to rescue them from their exile and restore them to their proper place
Milo bounces from adventure to adventure, meeting such difficulties as a literal place called the Doldrums where you basically depression-nap yourself to death if nobody stops you
I think my favorite bit is the tower of infinity, which was so evocative that one time I put it in a D&D campaign and it took my players two hours to realize that it was a literally infinitely-long stairwell and that they had better stop trying to get to the top
It's got this very weird tone, the whole thing, which fits very well with the chaotic looney-toons style of animation that the movie is done in; sort of crazy but with a purpose, and winking sidelong at the reader the whole time
I met Norton Juster and have a signed copy. He lives (lived? hopefully he's not dead yet...) in the area near my college and did a signing NOT TWO WEEKS AFTER I FIRST READ THE BOOK
I cannot emphasize enough how much of a mindfuck this book is, because it is willing to treat absolutely terrifying mathmatical truths as character traits and that leads to some real good ghost stories and interesting dangers
I waaaaaaant to say the movie is available on... Prime?????? I know Quinn was looking for it a while back and I think they turned it up but don't quote me.
My sides they are many
my faces not few
I'm the dodecahedron
and who are you?
look the acid trip fable of my childhood was The Point, okay.