Then there was another time, during some visit or other, when Von Ulrich pulled another word association test.
"Love."
"It makes the world go round."
"Blackness."
"Sleep."
"Alone."
"Quiet."
It went on for hours. Von Ulrich always seemed to be angrier because Barton didn't crack up, or because he insisted on turning in a perfect service record in the basketball.
"Barton, for God's sake, don't you realize how important this watch is? This valuable information gathered by these recorders. Think what it would mean if that data fell into the hands of the Asians! What if you missed an alarm, or fouled up in some way, and one of these recorders destroyed all the data?"