‘Jesus Christ!’ I said. ‘Are you the reason no babies are being born?’ He looked at me. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I used to run Population Control. I understand the equipment.’ ‘Jesus Christ! You fed the world with birth control because you felt suicidal. You’re erasing mankind…’ ‘So I can die. But look how suicidal mankind is.’ ‘Only because you’ve destroyed its future. You’ve drugged it and fed it lies and withered its ovaries and now you want to bury it. And I thought you were some kind of a god.’ ‘I’m only what I was constructed to be. I’m equipment, Mary.’
