simone’s Reviews > The Day the Dancers Came: Selected Prose Works > Status Update

... thinking of ways and means of getting out, or hiding somewhere out of reach of the dissidents ... anywhere, the farther from home the better, perhaps a leisurely trip around the world to blot out the memory of the nightmare, and finally settling down somewhere in peace and quiet, where everything can be bought for money, including peace of mind and happiness, but far away, a long, long way from home.