Children were experiments, and his had failed.

“We have to think of a question that we wouldn't otherwise want to answer.'He st…”

“I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes…”

“At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneline…”

“All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrummi…”