The novel is fiction. It explores an aspect of modern society that we are not eager, or even willing to look at. We tell ourselves that imperial fascism, financial looting, political insanity. military atrocities, and so forth, are so far outside of our daily living as if they didn't exist. We like to see a world that is flat rather than how it really is. And there is another aspect that we don't want to acknowledge either, which is actually the real principle of our humanity: the Principle of Universal Love that we simply can't get away from. We find ourselves reminded again and again that the world really is a sphere, politically and in love, militarily and in sex, ideologically and in romance, contrary to what we believe or fear it is. 

But why should we respond to the truth? Can’t we go on living in the small world of our dreams as devoted members of the 'Flat Earth Society?' 

Ah, but why should we remain living in a rut?

This book is Volume 4B of the series: The Lodging for the Rose.