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PROJECT "GENERATION X"
(EXERS)How did Mark trace the project?
Tapes, notes, minutes, files since the sixties.Who was there at the meeting?
How do they decide who is to be a replicant? Committee? Criteria. We got the permission and the funds. We went to D.C. to present the current research, they listen, they ask questions. About experiments in England, Israel, Germany. There are many private companies right here and they are working in the same direction. It's all just a matter of time. We can't control the situation. The technology is not extremely sophisticated. We work on animals for a several decades. At some point it has to happen, why not now? What are consequences? We get the best and the brightest who will change the nation in twenty-thirty years Remember "Boys From Brazil"?.
"Please, summarize the benefits."
"In the long run, we can change the social structure all together. Second, it's a begining of the second evolution cycle. We got naturally that far, how far we can go with controlled selection -- who knows?"
"Should be there several woman to carry in the clones?"
They should be placed in different social conditions -- rich, poor, male, female. How many? One or several replicants? should the parents be inform? To monitor, yes. It's unconstitutional. It's science, we can't inform them all, we can't go public -- the media will follow the kids and will ruin the experiment.
"Should we claim that the normal children are the clones and see the effect? Could it be purely psychological?"
"Why don't we let you do it, denying any knowledge? The mad scientists, you know. Twenty years is a long time."
"Do you have people who are ready to do it?"
"We have a lot of young people working in this area.... I'm not sure that at some point they won't do it without any authorization. We can't debate this topic; it's matters of national security."
"We could form a model family, we have enough of singles."
"What do you expect to happen?"
"Not much. It's new but the biological factor is not the main one."
"What could go wrong?"
"We don't know how the clones would react to the fact of being different, psychologically. We should inform one group and see the effect."
"And how would they react? Your guess."
"Hard to say. That's the unknown. There many other abnormalities in the world. How would you react if you about to learn that your parents are not your biological parents?"
"This is a nightmare."
"Politically." "Potentially, the biggest scandal of my career." "That's what you are paid for." "What's next?" "Basically, everyone could choose to go naturally or the cloning way. Or both. We can't answer all your questions, we have our own question we need to answer first." "Dr. Frank, do you have a family?" "No, sir." How did the whole project become known in the late nineties? He (she) is in grad school, in bio-chemistry. Organ donation. Who is the father? Kennedy? Who am I? A relative? Was he looking like JFK? Now, in retrospect, he recalls that he was watched all the time. Accidents. He talks with Dr. Frank Stain. (What is working on now? Aging?) Why didn't he clone himself? "I did." "Who is he?" "Which one?" "How many did you do?" "Twelve. After the first was born I cloned him during the first year, and so on. There are twelve of them with ten years between the oldest and the youngest. The oldest is thirty six." "I want to see them. Where are they? Did you placed them in the foster homes?" "No, they are all together, on the farm." "Do you have real children?" "No, I was too busy to have a family." "Do they have their own families?" (They are not his sons, they are of different generations, sons of each other.) "They thought that Oedipus is a tragedy." "Do they know?" They used the hippies. Of course, they went for it then. Records of the twelve families. Nothing extraordinary, normal people. "The project is not complete. We don't know what would happen to the second, third, forth and so on. We no limitations on plant and animal level. But it's too early to draw conclusions." Did he come to kill him? How did he find him? Where? Seattle? He left the lab. He lived on the lake, on a small island. "Dr. Frank?" He was sixty two. He looked older. .... "Playing God? Sure. Somebody has to do it. Do you know that I am a Jew? No, I'm half German, also. My mother was raped ion the camp. I don't my German side, she doesn't remember how many raped her. She was lucky, she made it, the rest of my Jewish relatives vanished. I was twenty six in 1963 and it was my Ph.D." .... "We took the sample of his tissue before the funeral. No, not I. I'm not a decision maker, I'm a scientist." "But you decided on replicating yourself." "They needed me. What could they do to me?" "And who was she?" "There were a few. First, my mother. Then there were two other women. I loved her. I think." Photos. Videos. "I have six months to live. Cancer." "You have a plenty of spare parts." Frank didn't answer. Both were silent. "Why did you stop working on it?" "Because it's your turn." Mark didn't answer. "Why did you come?" It was very quiet here. "Mark, you thought about it. Tell me what you think." Mark was looking at the lake. "You think that this project is strange? What do you think the future looks like? What do you want to do? Fight it? Do you think we got that far accident? We worked for it, for centuries, generation after generation. What's bothering you?" "We are doing it on ourselves." "Why not? It's about time. Are you perfect or happy with yourself? Don't we change ourselves every day?" "This is too radical." "Is it? How about death? Is it radical too? Don't you think that life itself is a radical act? And how do you want to live? You always can step out and live an ordinary life, have family, go fishing. It's always there. Right here." He pointed at the lake. "Do you talk with `them' about it?" .... "Do you know why Byron didn't write `Frankenstein'? It was his idea. Because it was a joke. Why is it mad what I did? What about millions pregnant girls? Do you have a girl-friend? Is it mad to make love? What is mad? Tell me what you see. What do you see ahead? You are young." The farm. Do they look identical?
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