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Quote #10
The fire leaped up to emphasize his talking. And then all the papers were gone except one. All the laws and beliefs of Earth were burnt into small hot ashes which soon would be carried off in a wind. ("The Million-Year Picnic," 127)
Timothy's dad wants to start over on Mars, so he very symbolically burns all these old papers. But why does he have to burn them on Mars—why can't he just leave them behind on Earth? It's as though he has to personally see them destroyed before he can forget them.