Half way through the book the wall collapses, and having no job, he shoots David Bowie in Berlin after discovering he has underage groupies. The rest of the book is him being put on trial with all the teenagers and real life musicians he beat up testifying against him.
the point of promoting show don't tell was to prevent people from making direct calls to action. i'd say valuing metaphor and allegory probably makes people more adept at the abstract if they're proficient at reading it
we took care of people reading & thinking proficiently with school privatization, don't get the two phenomena mixed up