I haven't read it yet, so don't have the full context, but from the description it sounds like a tone poem or series of musings on the broad topic. As such, literary license gives broad rights and privelegdes.

Even Hunter Thompson loved The Revelation of St. John; not for the religious mysticism, but for the raw power of the imagery and the words.

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