The author uses abstract diction that encompasses the narrator’s thoughts and visions, as well as references to science-fiction works,“as though they were walking into one of Paul’s spray-paint utopias”. He does so in order to create a pensive tone. The story points out that society put on a, “huge stage set, a series of elaborate props for playing at living in the future”, and then alludes to Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious to remind the reader that the facade doesn’t get rid of the truth that present culture evolved from an aggregate knowledge of past concepts. Furthermore, he uses Jung’s theory to explain the “semiotic” hallucinations as a reappearance of a shared culture’s archetypes and ideas of the unknown. The repetition
