![]() ![]() Like all good dystopian literature should. This novel just tears off illusions and excuses back to first causes and actions. We ignore and get on with our lives, occasionally disturbed but most of the time we ignore and have plenty of reasons why we can and should. We ignore it - once it was far away in 'poor' countries that we sent charity to now it is in shanty towns on our cities streets. Maybe the author is making us look at what we accept, at least those of us who are the lucky per cent at the top of the economic pyramid, the vast numbers who live and die in lives of appalling want and suffering. Nor could they bring a child into it if they really believed the world they lived was based on a obscenity. No one could possibly have such beliefs and continue functioning in a society like that. ![]() Then governments initiated the Transition. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. I think it made perfect sense within the whole drift of the novel - if he really was different, if he saw any of the heads, even Jasmine, as human then he couldn't continue living within the world as it was. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. ![]()
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