“Just because I liked to be by myself,” he continued, rolling onto his back. “Just because I liked science, like there’s something sinister about that. They all just regard me as this—anomaly, and they decided a long time ago that they didn’t care about the details, and now they just kind of act like I’m not there, or if I am it’s the me from twenty years ago. And that’s better than— I mean, I know it’s not the same as—”
