The Uninvited

What if they are indeed a manifestation ofman’s own possible future? And that they havecome not to ‘haunt’ us (as superstitious mindsmight insist), but instead, to simply show us –in only part of its full horror – the legacy ourera will leave them, if our despoliation ofEarth continues unchecked? If so, one can seetheir arrival as a desperate attempt to avertthat future, by stopping it in its tracks.It seems counter-intuitive to salute thechildren for what they have done, given thedestructiveness of their methods. But instincthas its imperatives. And so does DNA. Can weblame them for craving survival, when thatsurvival is that of our own descendants too?When he speculated about a newparadigm that day in Ashok’s office, Idismissed it as ‘fanciful’. It never struckme that I might be wrong to. The finalentry in Professor Whybray’s notebook isvery short.