“Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.” IfsHumansPersonsPurposeOrderRacePeriodsSolitudeSeriesHuman RaceSaneRefugeMembershipDisappearanceVanishingChecking Out Author:John Murray