![]() ![]() We want to do whatever we are capable of doing in order to alter human thought and bend the energies of civilization.” During a sales pitch to prospective human popsicles, the proponents of the Convergence promise, “Life everlasting belongs to those of breathtaking wealth. ![]() And there are satiric set pieces, too, that remind us that DeLillo began as an advertising copywriter: “Die a while, then live forever!” In a conference room, philosophers, biologists, geneticists, ethicists and futurists consider the demands of eternity, led by a set of pale-skinned twins who declare: “We want to stretch the boundaries of what it means to be human - stretch and then surpass. As Jeffrey ambles around in this Twilight Zone haze, he encounters other enigmatic characters, particularly an orphic monk who serves as a counselor to the dearly befrozen. ![]()
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