What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can&
#39;t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone&
#39;s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we&
#39;ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.