“Yes, and you will have been a part of it.”
“Through Cave?”
“Partly, yes. There will be others after him. His work in the future will be distorted by others, but that’s to be expected.”
“I don’t like your future, Clarissa.”
“Nor does it like you, my dear. The idea of someone who is gloomy and at odds with society, bitter and angry, separate from others ... I shouldn’t wonder but that you yourself might really be used as a perfect example of the old evil days.”
“Virtue dies?”
“Virtue becomes the property of the race.”
“Imagination is forbidden?”
“No, only channeled for the good of all.”
“And this is a desirable world? the future you describe?”