…Have you ever read Aleksander Belyayev’s The Amphibian Man? In an attempt to make him happy, a brilliant scientist turns his son into an amphibian man. But his son is lonely under the sea. He wants to be like everyone else, to live on land, fall in love with a regular girl—but it’s too late. And so he dies. But the father had thought that he’d solved a great mystery…That he was God! That’s the response to all the great utopians! …It was a beautiful idea! But what are you going to do with human nature? Man hasn’t changed since the days of ancient Rome…
