How had these kids’ brains developed over time? They were capable of maintaining a simultaneous interest in a thousand different stimuli: music, images, words, sounds, symbols, noises . . . And they seemed able to absorb it all with an ease that was probably only superficial, but involved a vast, all-encompassing surface, the surface of the whole world. He, for his part, had been taught to dive deep, whereas they had learned to navigate on the open seas.
