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. Bill's attitude about paying for air reflects
his wrong-headedness in general. So I've discovered. We sat in Old Dome and
discussed many things. Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst
form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He told me sincerely-smugly!- that
of course everyone was entitled to the best possible medical and hospital
service-free of course, unlimited of course, and of course the government should
pay for it. He couldn't even understand the mathematical impossibility of what
he was demanding. But it's not just free air and free therapy, Bill honestly
believes that anything he wants must be possible... and should be free." She
shivered. "I couldn't shake his opinion on anything."
"'The Road Song of the Bandar-Log.'"
"Excuse me?"
"From a poet a couple of centuries back, Rudyard Kipling. The
bandar-log-apes, they were-believed that anything was possible just by wishing
it so."
"Yes, that's Bill. In all seriousness he explains how things should be ...
then it's up to the government to make it happen. Just pass a law. Richard, he
thinks of 'the government' the way a savage thinks of idols. Or- No, I don't
know, I don't understand how his mind works. We talked at each other but we
didn't reach each other. He believes his nonsense. Richard, we made a mistake-or
I did. We should not have rescued Bill."
"Wrong, honey girl
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