Chloe had another odd sensation, but this one was of worry, not guilt. Trying to ignore it, she took another drink, then noticed that more than half a minute had passed since she responded. "James must also be deep in thought."
Finally, he put forth another question, "So... what do you enjoy doing outside of your work, Chloe?"
With the alcohol beginning to calm Chloe down, she was easily able to conjure up a reply, "I spend time reading, and watching the news." She laughed at herself, as her off-duty life appeared very dull to her now. "Perhaps I do need something boring, amidst all this excitement." Chloe jokingly inquired, "Does your job leave you a lot of free time, or are you often busy saving the universe?"
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
