Progress is already being made toward complete isolation of the TK gene. Beyond that, a short, unpaved spurlittle more than a footpathwound up the rise of land to the right, angling away from Route 6Ī thorny moral question is raised here.
She followed it with her head down, past the larger spots where Carrie had rested, through another hedge, across a Willow Street back yard, and then through an undeveloped tangle of scrub pine and oak. But in the strong firelight she saw something better. It was impossible to even think about getting close enough to look in. The house was in flames, the roof blazing. She came out one yard from the White's house and crossed over Sue cut through two back yards and forced her way through a budding hedge that scraped at her, white short, stiff bristles.
It was three miles out to The Cavalier, even across-country, as Carrie was going. Carrie was hurt very badly, was going on brute determination alone at this point. She was not even aware that she was following Carrie's progress toward The Cavalier, no more than she was aware of the process of respiration unless she thought about it. She had no idea how long she sat there, crying in a grainy half-doze. Yet TK is not a germ it is as much a part of the afflicted person as the colour of his eyes It is more or less assumed in the scientific community (see, for instance, Bourke and Hannegan's 'A View Toward Isolation of the TK Gene with Specific Recommendations for Control Parameters' in Mocrobiology Annual, Berkeley: 1982) that when a testing procedure is established, all school-age children will undergo the test as routinely as they now undergo the TB skin-patch. More fire engines screamed by on Route 6 like huge red hounds in the nightĪ thorny moral question is raised here. A soft breeze snuffled through the juniper bushes on top of the hill. She put her hands over her face and sobbed into them.
As Dean McGuffin points out, in his excellent Science Yearbook article, if we refuse to do this, we will almost certainly have to pay the piperand the price is apt to be a high one Whatever any of us may think of the Carrie White affair, it is over. Momma wanted her to be the Angel's Fiery Sword, to destroy. It was really amazing that she kept going. She didn't need to follow it any moreĪs Carrie fell in a brook and dragged herself out, icy and shivering.
She got up and began to run clumsily, not bothering to follow the trail of blood. And how is it possible to isolate a person who will eventually have the power to knock down all walls? If the TK test shows positive, we have no treatment except a bullet in the head. But in this case, is forewarned forearmed? If the TB test shows positive a child can be treated or isolated. If overt TK ability occurs as a part of puberty, and if this hypothetical TK test is performed on children entering the first grade, we shall certainly be forewarned.
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