His new avian existence initially seems to be as humdrum as his human one: “until a man…came to separate the chickens according to what was to be their life’s work: laying eggs, being a rooster, or becoming Sunday dinner.” To Tom’s surprise, his job is egg-laying. He barely has time to utter the chant before he dies and begins his next life-as a chicken. He thinks nothing of it, or of the shopkeeper’s prescient warning that such an ability is “not for the faint of heart,” until, shortly afterward, he’s struck by a bus. He’s told by its owner that if he utters a certain chant-“daba dee, daba daa” from Eiffel 65’s song “I’m Blue”-at the last moment of his life, he’ll gain the ability to remember that life when he’s reincarnated. Simpson ( The Illusionists, 2016) offers a comic novel about the unexpected perils of reincarnation.īoring, nondescript 31-year-old insurance worker Tom Robinson is searching for a novelty gift for a co-worker’s upcoming birthday when he wanders into a New Age shop.
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