Rhodes shook his head. He'd been asked these questions many times before, but it was the subject he loved and he felt himself warming to it. "Not a planet-wide study," he said. "Just this city. Just Junction City. But if you can learn how a sweeping social institution controls one center of population, then...."
"I'm sure," the interrogator said dryly.
"Besides, there are the ruins outside the city."
"Indeed, there are the ruins."
"Because an anthropologist is interested in the history of his subject as well as its merely ephemeral present. And there are those who believe that the Balata 'kai ruins hold the origin of your belief in metempsychosis...."
"Do you, Rhodes?"
"Yes. Yes, I do."
"Have you found anything to fortify this belief?"
"I have."
"What have you found?"