"I don't know. Who the hell ever wasted Einstein's time asking him a thing like that?"
"People who want to know the answers to questions have to ask them. You can find out anything by asking the right questions of the right person at the right time."
Linton stared suspiciously. "Do you know where I can find a resurrectionist?"
"I am a resurrectionist."
"But the policeman brought me to you!"
"Well, that's what you paid him to do, wasn't it? Did you think a policeman would just steal your money? Cynics—all you young people are cynics."
Linton scooted forward on the insultingly cold metal chair and really looked at the doctor for the first time.
"Doctor, can you really resurrect the dead?"
"Will you stop being cynical? Of course I can!"
"Doctor, I'm beginning to believe in you," Linton said, "but tell me, can you resurrect the long dead?"