ENG 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter Full Text: Biochip, Nerd, Neurosurgery
20 Mar 2017
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Edward milligan: the narrator; vergil"s friend, to whom he goes about the. Gail: edward"s wife; is infected by him and joins him in becoming the creatures" world. Dr michael bernard: a retired neurosurgeon associated with genetic engineering and with genetron corp. ; we can assume he has been infected as well, since he shook sweaty hands with edward. Edward, the narrator, begins by telling us that hours are born and die without much suffering, and that the loss of billions of them would not have as much importance as the loss of a person. We are also told that everything has an energy relative to its importance. Then edward tells us that his friend vergil is the first person to violate these principles. We are introduced to vergil as having been a pudgy nerd, but who had become a handsome man since edward"s last seeing him, 2 years before.
