Steeply: …the hordes were told it was part of the screening - the scores came out fascinatingly, chillingly average, normal.
Marathe: In other words not any deviants.
Steeply: Nonabnormal along every axis they could see. Just regular young people - Canadian young people.
Marathe: Volunteering for fatal addiction to the electrical pleasure.
Steeply: But Remy, apparently the purest, most refined pleasure imaginable. The neural distillate of, say, orgasm, religious enlightenment, ecstatic drugs, shiatsu, a crackling fire on a winter night - the sum of all possible pleasures refined into pure current and deliverable at the flip of a hand-held lever. Thousands of times an hour, at will.
Marathe: [Bland look]
Steeply: By free choice, of course. [Examines cuticle]
p473, IJ
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