I must say, and this is a cruel thing to speak of but it must be said, I did find that parade of children who were once frozen embryos rather unnerving. There's something just a tad too science projecty about them; a bit too "The Curse of Frankenstein's Fridge" adapted for real life and playing at a theater near you soon. And how disurbing will it be for this Ice Box Nation to discover that unlike their friends and neighbors who were gestated in the normal manner, they themselves were actually picked out of cold storage and then defrosted in a stranger's womb. What questions will such persons must ask themselves during what one imagines must be especially cold, dark nights of the soul: "Is that dark stain on my skin a birth mark, or a freezer burn?" Personally, I don't know which I find more bizarre: embryonic thawing or human cloning. Mind you, they did look good next to President Bush, who is a great champion of In-Veto fertilisation ....
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Huxley's Brave New World feels a great deal closer to being "science fact" than it did when I first read it in 1969.
Posted by: Incurable Insomniac | July 19, 2006 at 18:42
I can't wait till one of his daughters drives drunk and gets into a wreck, has a spinal injury resulting in paralysis that stem cell researchers could have come up with a way to fix.
But NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Andraste | July 21, 2006 at 09:27
THat was mean spirited. I take it back.
Still, though.
Posted by: Andraste | July 21, 2006 at 09:27
Andraste, do you work for big ugly bio-research corporation?
Posted by: Tat | July 21, 2006 at 22:42
you are sick
Posted by: the nerd | August 16, 2006 at 00:09