No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
Life doesn't retreat.
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.