ATD: unanswered questions #2

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Without preliminaries:

What, given the promise of the pre-release auto-blurb-

"..Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters
stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part
stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure
anguages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-
the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what
the world might be with a minor adjustment or two.
According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction."


-was the nature of the historical "adjustment," that was
supposed to have taken place? Despite the Chums flight
to grace, it seems that life on the planet is also biz as usual.