J. McClain’s Reviews > The Alienist > Status Update

"He bolted for the door, leaving me to apologize more fully for the abrupt departure--which, not surprisingly, Wissler didn't seem to mind at all. Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in another."

"And it always seems to begin with trust..."

Flashes of silver and brilliantly colored scales caught the light of a few dim worklamps that were on, increasing the eerie impression that the fish were a terrified audience searching for a way out of this place of death and back to those deep, dark regions where men and their brutal ways were unknown.

I wondered, just as I had wondered a thousand times during staff meetings at the Times, how long many members of the press--not to mention politicians and members of the public--would be content to equate deliberate ignorance of evil with its nonexistence.