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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Strang, South, Africa entitled Marabou Stork Nightmares.
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conversations.value: Marabou Stork Nightmares: Roy Strang narrates the story from an (at first) unexplained coma, which he has been in for the previous two years.\nHis life in this state is a miserable affair, surrounded by uncaring doctors and his extremely dysfunctional family.\nIn his fantasy life, however, he is an adventurer in the wilds of South Africa, where he and his loyal guide, Sandy Jamieson, hunt for the marabou stork.\nWhen not hallucinating, Strang tells his life story, beginning in a "scheme" (local authority housing) in Leith, Scotland, with his violent, delusional parents, two half-brothers (one a womanizer, the other flamboyantly gay), and his promiscuous sister, all of whom he despises.\nThe family relocates to apartheid-era South Africa when he is an adolescent, where he is repeatedly molested by his uncle.\nWhen his father is jailed for the violent assault of a taxi driver, the Strangs are forced to return to Scotland, a mere 18 months after they left.\nOver the next few years, Strang grows into a violent, misogynistic thug.\nHe maintains a full-time job in as a systems analyst for the fictional investment group, \'Scottish Spinsters\' (a probable reference to the real Scottish Widows firm).\nHe joins a gang of football hooligans who are attached to HibernianC, the Capital City Service, and led by the fearsome Lexo.\nStrang enjoys his life as a "top boy," feared by the entire town, until the gang kidnaps a young woman who rejected their advances and gang rapes her; Strang informs the reader that he is horrified, but too intimidated to try and stop them, and he even joins in.\nThe gang evades prison, but Strang is stricken with guilt and withdraws completely into depression.\nHe briefly revives a few months later when he meets a woman and genuinely feels love for the first time.\nAround the same time he begins to take ecstasy, and even befriends his gay half-brother.\nThe memory of what he has done continues to haunt him, however, and his depression soon completely engulfs him, taking him away from his lover and his drug-driven escapism.\nHe attempts suicide but survives, putting him in the coma he began the novel in.\nOne day, the gang\'s rape victim visits him in the hospital.\nShe tells him that she has been murdering her rapists one by one, and now she has come for him, revealing that he was by far the most brutal and that he has been trying to convince himself and the audience (the reader) of his moral cleanliness compared that of those around him.\nShe then penectomises him and stabs him to death.\nIn his final moments, Strang realizes that the only person he has ever really hated is himself, and makes peace with everyone he has wronged and who has wronged him.\nThe novel\'s other, more stream-of-consciousness narrative, intertwined with the story of Strang\'s past, takes place in the fantasy world he creates for himself in the coma.\nAt first a bizarre but rousing adventure, it gradually becomes darker as Strang reveals the uglier parts of his life and personality, involving surreal images of brutality and sexual violence.