Sensory overload is produced through the capitalist need for accumulation and the ever-present advertising. This is true for Philipp and his family, which in the absence of social security systems has to cope with the financial burden of treatment as well as maintaining the cost of living with a diminished income. Mika has been donating childhood memories to an institution called the Memory Transfer Clinic MTC , which uses them as a means of treating depression and behavioral disorders in others. Ultimately, though, I believe, the stronger impulse in the novel is its focus on living with dis ability and adjusting the social frame around it to better accept it. Magic, then, has changed a pivotal moment in history.
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