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The men in these stories—Industrial Era holdovers, outsiders seeking for regard and importance, or confused individuals who confuse the certainties of 1 truth using the uncertainties of another—are stop in some manner from modern culture.Sometimes in these tales, which Randy Y. Nelson calls "thought experiments about ideals incompatible," the figures are such as the Native-American prison guard in "Escape": Rifkin believes that atonement can be done also for fugitive murders. Others are less sanguine. In "Breakers," a hitman comes on the island off the African coast.