The narrator talks about how the town of Dickens vanished quietly. There was never a story in the newspaper or anything about the matter announced. One day, it just simply was not there anymore. No one seemed to care about the occurrence and some were relieved that they no longer needed to be identified as a “Dickensian”. The narrator describes Dickens’s disappearance as a “blatant conspiracy by the surrounding, increasingly affluent, two-car-garage communities to keep their property values up and blood pressure down” (57). The way the matter quietly slipped away made me wonder, what else is not being talked about? Media controls so much of what we learn, so when a matter is blatantly hushed, we have to consider the things we aren’t hearing.