It's a very revealing list and Bruce wonders at the motivation behind disclosing it to begin with. Has he been conditioned to unroll this list and is obeying the conditioning itself? Is he trying to work against it? Is it an entirely autonomous decision? Perhaps more relevant is that he chooses to finish with the phrase 'a few of those are getting better.' It carries the implication that he wants change. That he sees change as a positive thing, to become 'better.'
"Then you're attempting to change those."
Bruce wonders if better has any other definition. If it's synonymous with words like human, or normal, or civilian. He wonders where the impetus for this journey began, or if necessity was, as the adage goes, the mother of invention. There is a marked absence of inflection in his voice, he works through the points by rote. And then he shrugs. It is a fascinating shift from one to the other. A visual signal that separates two halves.
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"Then you're attempting to change those."
Bruce wonders if better has any other definition. If it's synonymous with words like human, or normal, or civilian. He wonders where the impetus for this journey began, or if necessity was, as the adage goes, the mother of invention. There is a marked absence of inflection in his voice, he works through the points by rote. And then he shrugs. It is a fascinating shift from one to the other. A visual signal that separates two halves.
"Perhaps the name is only a matter of time."