A carnival of technology

Well, I guess that’s it. I don’t have a lot to say about the denouement. Stepan Trofimovich set himself up as the swine in which to cast out the titular demons, but I don’t feel like his death from generic Victorian disease really had any meaning. Like Chris, I don’t understand what his character meant or why it took such a major role in parts of the book while being so uninvolved with the central plot.

The conspiracy completely fell apart, and I guess that’s the message: the weakness of man and the inevitability of failure in such revolutionary endeavors. I think tomorrow I’ll start that food book that Heather recommended.