Marathe and Steeply: choosing
Marathe’s chair squeaked slightly as his weight shifted. ‘Always with you this freedom! For your walled-up country, always to shout “Freedom! Freedom!” as if it were obvious to all people what it wants to mean, this word.
Context
The catalogued serial chair-squeak: the A.F.R.'s audible signature sounding under Marathe's biggest ideological aria — the wheelchair audibly present in the sentence where he indicts American freedom.