"Is the moral point that utopias are impossible because people are different and authoritarianism demands removing the differences? Oh, and not to forget the past, it's important." Maybe? He hasn't read it, but from what she said, that's his guess.

Arthur makes a face. "Now I'm suffering," he teases right back. M-Day, mutants, Scarlet Witch, hiding. Okay.

"You're underestimating public pressure." Also because, "I wasn't hiding back then. It was impossible to escape. I started off as a Doctor, so I had to establish community ties and trust, and that's a big part of who paid my bills as a writer. Everywhere I went, someone would complain about it. And the writers they sent kept coming. I did stop for 8 years. That's what, over 60% of your life time? It was a long time. And it didn't die down."