Oh thank God. I can’t imagine explaining “sleep” to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern. I add his word for “sleep” to the dictionary. I turn to leave. “I’m going to sleep now. I’ll come back in twenty-nine thousand seconds.” “I observe,” he says. “You observe?” “I observe.” “Uh…” He wants to watch me sleep? In any other context that would be creepy, but when you’re studying a new life-form it’s
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