“When did money become the thing — the only thing?” Ms. Lim’s character asks in the opening monologue.

Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is--no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects.

the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset

But one ting ish goot; dey cotch de murterer."