The Nirvana Plague by Gary Glass

Author:Gary Glass [Glass, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FICTION / General
ISBN: 9780989074605
Publisher: BookBalloon Enterprises, LLC
Published: 2013-03-28T23:00:00+00:00

Part Three: April

We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,

We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,

We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,

We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other,…

Chapter 23

Across Gastineau Channel from the Alaskan state capital, on a hill above the village of Douglas, in a secure government bioresearch facility, the members of Project Deer Park assembled in the facility’s main teleconference room for their thirtieth daily status briefing. Attendance had always been optional, except for team leads, and most days they were the only ones who came. But today was different. This one was meant to be their last meeting under quarantine. Secretary Pritzker himself would be attending. A decision was going to be made. Nearly everyone on the project, over a hundred of them, came to witness it. The decision itself was a foregone conclusion. But they came to see it happen anyway.

Marley sat in the front row of the auditorium, waiting to make his report. Dr. Delacourt sat beside him.

Benford strode to the lectern in front of them. On a huge wallscreen behind her, an array of display-frames looked into the conference rooms of remote attendees in Washington, Bethesda, Atlanta, and Zurich. In another frame, a colorful graphic represented the estimated worldwide incidence of IDD, derived from data jointly maintained and continuously updated by statisticians at the CDC and WHO.

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