Sublime

He worried that language had come to the Earth and invented people in order to perpetuate itself.

Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.

Finally, when Reagan took away their $115-a-month government checks, the refugees without jobs had moved out, unable to pay the three bucks a night. Hoke had then persuaded Mr. Bennett to get rid of the worst offenders, so now there were only five or six Marielitos left, and they all had jobs of some kind. Hoke figured they all liked him.

He’s Sih Hsuin Ma now—his old self turned inside out, like a jaunty, reversible jacket.

doggedness

That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.