“Yes. Ours was not that complex, but it did go further than a lot of people do. Our rebirths were not ‘solo projects’, as they are often called, not that anything like that could ever be achieved on one’s own. Think about it! How could anyone be reborn alone? It takes two parents and another. Life itself depends upon cooperation - it cannot take place without cooperation, and it certainly cannot continue in isolation… yet some people on The Surface seem to think that it can, or they lead their lives as if no-one else matters anyway”.
“In splendid isolation…”
“I don’t know how isolation can be splendid… It’s used as a punishment in prisons, people very rarely laugh out loud when alone, and it is definitely easier to have fun when not alone”. He scrutinised her face in order to judge wheth
