Answer: the purpose is to voice any opinion in a respectable manner about the claim
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The author most likely included this paragraph in 'The Hot Zone' to explain some of the reasons for downplaying the seriousness of the situation. The lines 'When he talked to the Washington Post reporters, he was careful not to discuss the more dramatic aspects of the operation.
The theme of the poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams is exactly that, the Fall of Icarus. This theme was explored many times throughout many major works, however here it is explored as a background image, not noticed by hardworking people in the sun. Icarus falls and drowns, and nobody bats an eye.
