The Uninvited

and started writing very fast. So I tellAshok we’ll both have whisky and watchthe old man write. He doesn’t dodiagrams: instead, he sets out his ideas inthe form of sentences, paragraphs,headings and lists of questions. Often, theyare very elegantly phrased. I am adiagram-and-symbol man. But whatdiagram, and what symbols, can describea breed of vengeful human child thatbrings the world as we know it to itsknees?I must’ve swallowed one, said JonasSvensson.You can’t come in, said de Vries.Complex organisms like tapeworms canlive inside the body for decades. Theymake huge demands. They are in control.Like puppet masters, they call the shots.