"transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood..." page 200
I haven't really made any connections to music like it was suggested, so here it goes. Linda to me is the face of addiction. She kills herself by constantly taking soma holidays to forget her world. When she wasn't able to get soma, she took to mescal to run away from her reality. This reminds me of the song "Used to Get High" by the John Butler Trio. In this song, he touches not only on drug addiction, but common addictions of many kinds of things. My favorite part of the song is when he sings "Super size, large fries, big mac, coca cola Go on man, pick your poison Speed, weed, ecstasy, LSD Man, it don't bother me cos we're all on something." The song claims that addiction is common. The lyrics "Escape, can't wait all trying to get away" capture Linda's personality as well as much of the people in society in the novel. People must mitigate their afflictions by use of drugs. John Butler sings "can't deal, can't feel what's real. The people of this society live so unnaturally. They are often lost in a fabricated, drug induced world in order to cowardly turn away from some natural negative emotions, such as jealousy, shame, anger, sadness, embarrassment, guilt and grief.
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