Publisher's Synopsis
VOLUNTEER: Your rights are not being violated! You're living in a dream world, you're living in a world of myth. Government can't violate your right to freedom of movement, because without government, you wouldn't have any freedom of movement! PAYNE'S GRAY: You don't take a man who's been drunk all his life-because of all the stress he's had to deal with-you don't take that man and throw him into the gutter just because some kind of arbitrary limit-that was set way back who knows when-kicks in on his benefits. This is why countries turn communist. Why do you think Lenin rebelled against the czar? Because the czar wouldn't extend his benefits, that's why. CAREGETTER: He knows I don't have the strength to grow a vegetable garden and set up a stand. He knows I'd like to, I'd give anything to be able to. Does he think I like to see myself dependent like this? He enjoys rubbing it in. Every stake he plants in the ground to grow his tomatoes on is like a stake through my heart. Every tomato he picks reminds me of my inadequacy. SECURITY INSPECTION: If she wasn't hiding something illegal, why would she object to security agents doing an inspection? RUSTIC RETIREMENT: Being a sort of paranoid old soul, the old gal got it into her head that if she signed off on an agreement like that, Brookline Biomedical might try to hasten her death in some way, just so they could get their hands on her biomedical assets. That's the kind of stuff that comes into an old woman's head when she lives alone and has no one to talk to and nothing to do at night except read murder mysteries or watch them on tv.
