The writer W. H. Auden, in his essay The Guilty Vicarage, wrote that the fundamental "phantasy" of the detective story is being "restored to the Garden of Eden," "where [we] may know love as love and not as the law." The detective's
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It is 2025. That much we can agree on. The economy is in free-fall collapse. Healthcare is more horrifyingly expensive than ever, and your fellow American is pushed into the depths of despair to simply afford the right to live another day. Armed and armored agents of the government roam