 What is the significance of the restaurant's stained table cloth?
The people we treat are on one side of the line and we're on the other. Floating before him in memory was the vertical hoop and the horizontal hoop, both of shining steel-impervium alloy. But what about the severe case where we have to burn a three-dimensional smiling mother-image on the eyes of the patient with radiation? A young man with black glasses and a radar headset (a photophobe) was unable to keep from being pushed against Infield. A clean-cut young man with mouse-colored hair was moving toward the stubble-chinned, heavy-shouldered man quivering in the center of a web of impervium cables stuck secure to the walls and windows of buildings facing the street, the sidewalk, a mailbox, the lamp post and Infield.
 Like the cure, it obscures up a symptom but fails to address the root problem
 Only the cured people are allowed to dine in fine restaurants, but 'fine' is a loose term  Table cloths, like cures, can easily be switched out and cleaned (repaired) in order to appear flawless  They represent the stain that cure development has made on social progress  Like the cure, it obscures up a symptom but fails to address the root problem