"Nancy Kress - Trinity" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kress Nancy)

Devrie Caroline Konig had admitted herself to the Institute of the Biological Hope
on the Caribbean island of Dominica eleven months ago, in late November of 2017,
when her age was 23 years and 4 months. I am precise about this because it is all I can
be sure of. I need the precision. The Institute of the Biological Hope is not precise; it is
a mongrel, part research laboratory in brain sciences, part monastery, part school for
training in the discipline of the mind. That made my baby sister guinea pig, postulant,
freshman. She had always been those things, but, until now, sequentially. Apparently
so had many other people, for when eccentric Nobel Prize winner James Arthur
Bohentin had founded his Institute, he had been able to fund it, although precariously.
But in that it did not differ from most private scientific research centers.

Or most monasteries.

I wanted Devrie out of the Institute of the Biological Hope.

"It's located on Dominica," I had said sensibly-what an ass I had been-to an
unwasted Devrie a year ago, "because the research procedures there fall outside
United States laws concerning the safety of research subjects. Doesn't that tell you
something, Devrie? Doesn't that at least give you pause? In New York, it would be
illegal to do to anyone what Bohentin does to his people."

"Do you know him?" she had asked.

"I have met him. Once."
 "What is he like?"

"Like stone."

Devrie shrugged, and smiled. "All the participants in the Institute are willing.
Eager."

"That doesn't make it ethical for Bohentin to destroy them. Ethical or legal."

"It's legal on Dominica. And in thinking you know better than the participants what
they should risk their own lives for, aren't you playing God?"

"Better me than some untrained fanatic who offers himself up like an exalted
Viking hero, expecting Valhalla."

"You're an intellectual snob, Seena."

"I never denied it."

"Are you sure you aren't really objecting not to the Institute's dangers but to its
purpose? Isn't the 'Hope' part what really bothers you?"

"I don't think scientific method and pseudo-religious mush mix, no. I never did. I
don't think it leads to a perception of God."

"The holotank tapes indicate it leads to a perception of something the brain hasn't