Fleeing from the wild dogs who roam the Place of the Gods, John runs into one of the towers and bars the door. Exploring the building, he finds what readers easily recognize as one of many abandoned apartments, virtually untouched since the Time of the Gods. Here, John describes what we come to realize are kitchen appliances and electric lamps in a building where the gas and electricity have been disconnected. As John roams the apartment, we can guess what John will soon know—the Time of the Gods was in fact a past human society, one much like the society…