"you weren't hurting anyone, you were only hurting THINGS! And since things couldn't really be hurt,since things felt nothing, and things don't scream or whimper,...there was nothing to tease your conscience later... you were simply cleaning up..."(p.37)
Thom could be relating these "things" to the emotions of kid A, who is, after all , an android, having the inability to feel.
Perhaps a ref. to Fahrenheit 451?
"you weren't hurting anyone, you were only hurting THINGS! And since things couldn't really be hurt,since things felt nothing, and things don't scream or whimper,...there was nothing to tease your conscience later... you were simply cleaning up..."(p.37)
Thom could be relating these "things" to the emotions of kid A, who is, after all , an android, having the inability to feel.
"Everything to its proper place" (p.37)
just a connection...