The interrelationship many Jazz musicians and Beat writers felt with their compositions is expressed in the adage Introverts Dedicated to Chaos. In Dan Homeres' Pacific Northwest fiction novel, it is the chaotic intermingling of otherwise introverted characters forced into behaving as extroverts that supply the irreverent complications, conflicts, and a series of impassioned crimes. A rationalizing, ne'er-do-well narrator/guide is our link through the tribulations in Government Camp on Mount Hood, Oregon. A professor who is the theorist behind Mass Hysterical Deprivation, a sociological axiom regarding the scope of self-created misery, challenges the narrator's perseverance. Multi-level complications arise from a local bigot, his perverse SF short story writer wife, the narrator's friends, former Major League Baseball player Pete Rose, and a Claudine Longet lookalike, all of whom begin to understand the scope of self-created misery, a shady insight that could connect us all given the right set of coincidental circumstances.