Ambling with the bluesman's toothache in his heel, he describes "cities of the plague, " plots surprise showdowns in which he slaughters sleeping opponents, ponders craven human nature ("They will tear your mindaway from contemplation") and scans the skies for hints of geopolitical turmoil.
When the modern mind shifted away from a designed world to one governed by blind, evolutionary processes, the classical free-market consensus began to erode.