All Men of Genius by Rosen Lev AC

Author:Rosen, Lev AC [Rosen, Lev AC]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

ONCE out of sight, Jack leapt with happiness. All was going smoothly. Cecily would be his, if he were patient. He chuckled to himself as he walked back to the biological laboratory. Once there, he went over to his workstation, which had a small floppy-eared bunny in one cage and a pigeon in another. He put down the bottle of ether. He wasn’t all that fond of this part of his science. Cutting the animals open always seemed to him like a particularly cruel means to various ends that he loved. He tried to be cavalier about it—the scientific community had long ago sanctioned, if not encouraged, the use of animals for scientific purposes, and he didn’t disagree with the idea in theory—but as he dosed the pigeon with ether and carved open its chest, he shivered a little at the coldness of it.

Art requires sacrifice, he told himself. And besides, perhaps this bird can be taught to sing a new song, and then he will have his pick of the birds to mate with. One never knew what could make a better animal until one tried it. Jack found the voice box in the pigeon and switched it out for one he had taken out of a dead mockingbird, taking care to sew it in well so that it wouldn’t choke the pigeon. Then he closed the pigeon back up and let it rest in its cage. Later, Jack would see if he could make it sing. He looked over at the floppy-eared bunny, which he wouldn’t operate on until he felt quite sure of his abilities. The bunny stared back at him with large dark eyes. He gave the bunny a pat on the head, fed it a carrot, and the bunny anxiously took the carrot in its tiny paws and nibbled on it.

“You don’t mind being part of an experiment, right, Oscar?” he asked the bunny, who paid him no heed. “We’re going to teach you to talk, after all. What rabbit wouldn’t want that?”

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