Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [822]

No, we’re not certain. We’re not certain at all. Is he sick somewhere? Hurt? Held against his will for who knows what reason by who knows what monsters? — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 822

Note

Correction of the narrator’s own preceding sentence, delivered as one-word reversal, then pushed into a rapid interrogative spiral where each guess is worse than the last and all end on the same abstract noun, ‘monsters’ — the unavailability of knowledge is rendered as a syntax that keeps reaching and never lands.