 What is the significance of the lifting-off of the Washington Monument at the story's conclusion?
Through the barred windows of the workshop, rolling green hills were seen, their tree-studded flanks making a pleasant setting for the mental institution. She stopped behind a frowning, intense patient, rapidly shaping blobs of clay into odd-sized strips and forms. As he finished each piece, he carefully placed it into a hollow shell hemisphere of clay. I thought you said an 'atom bomb.'" With a furtive glance around him, he clapped the other half of the clay sphere over the filled hemisphere and then stood up. At the clay table, she carefully lifted the top half of the clay ball and stared thoughtfully at the jumbled maze of clay strips laced through the lower hemisphere.
 Society is too quick to dismiss the thoughts and behaviors of people living with mental illness as irrational or absurd
 Mental 'illness' could and should, in many cases, be viewed as an asset, rather than a deficit  Society is too quick to dismiss the thoughts and behaviors of people living with mental illness as irrational or absurd  People living with mental illness pose risks and/or threats to society and should be entrusted to government care  People living with mental illness(es) may possess abilities not understood by humans living without mental illness