A Fat Man who Flies

A man, from the mundane world, is plunged into a chaotic struggle for his own soul. Taken to a woman's house, and violently changed, perhaps for the better. Forms the genesis of a very unlikely, implausible, surrealist story where fish float up from sewers, when the earth shakes it's not a quake, but an opening from which poisonous flowers grow, and where Gods don't exist, but humans do. This is a story that reaches to the bottom, as an archaeologist seeks out the deepest secretes, what is underneath a man's soul?