“Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear…”
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“Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take mortality’ as being, not death, but the forek
“All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”