Status Updates From Counter-Clock World

The robots left a tactical kit at his house for his upcoming attack on the Library. "To his disappointment," all it contains is an gaseous LSD grenade.

He meets a group of Uditi late at night (who are, very unconcealedly, analogies for members of the US Civil Rights Movement). They have "spirit sorguhm", which gives similar effects to the alcohol of the before times, imbibed communally. Recall that sorguhm is a suppository.
They talk, about how his wife is kidnapped by the City Library and they can't go because it's closed now, and randomly the guys suggest an orgy.

Called it: sogurm is a suppository.

Also the Library, suspects in many disappearances and deaths, on a sting first sends out dreaded the Children's Department


Also this book is horrendous from racism and sexism grounds; I'm still holding out for an explanation

well surprise surprise she works for the library

"I'm leaving you for the cop that just tried to blackmail me into having sex with him"
"Aw, that's too bad"
(luckily for Sebastian, the mysterious woman who just walked into his shop 'concerned about her dead old aunt' also just happens to desperately *need* a penis immediately or (due to this world's odd physics) BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN)

I don't understand this timeline... people throw up to eat and for some reason the Library is a horrifying place;
But. Our main character struggles with the moral implications of him, (a married policeman) blackmailing a married woman on his beat to have sex with him... for two chapters; Then he actual damn does it (or suggests it) and is actually confused when she's disgusted?
The immaturity better be explained