About the book: year / Dystopia. As Thomas Eliot wrote in his poem “The Hollow Men,” “Between desire and shudder Between possibility and reality Between essence and manifestation Falls a Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine Life is very For Thine is This is how the world ends This is how the world ends This is how the world ends Not explosion but a whimper." When I started writing this story, I had something completely different in mind. But the text itself led me to exactly such a plot and precisely to such a plot outcome...