7/7

For some reason, while reading “Gun, with occasional murder” I can’t help but compare it with “The Big Sleep”. I’m aware that they are pretty different, but I think that the detectives are similar, except for the fact that this one, seems to have a drug issue. Once Metcalf takes his drugs he seems to be calmer, and when he walks into the room with the sheep, I seem to think of it the same as the deaths in “The Big Sleep”. Previously in the novels we have dealt with people who are very, very rich, but in this book I feel like that is not as much of an issue, which is interesting because this is the book with the Utopia. Although, there is a Utopia it is coincidental that a lot of the issues are in fact the same. It seems as though no matter how much control a society has over the public there are still issues, just like in Chinatown how they were controlling the water, there were so many issues with the city still. This has really become quite the communist society. The fact that it’s looked down upon to ask questions, and how it is rude becomes a real issue. If someone has to have a license to ask questions than the society is probably way more dangerous than these people can handle (hence to all of the drug addicts). The drugs are a way for these humans/non humans to escape this world that is so completely fixed they are numbed.