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How many have you found there?
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Five. And I believe there are more.
:23:13
How are they?
:23:16
As you described them back then:
"Insubstantial as ghosts".
:23:21
Only I guess...
many of them were children back then.
:23:26
Yes, children who fell asleep.
:23:34
Most died
during the acute stage of the illness.
:23:39
Those who survived... who awoke -
:23:43
- seemed fine,
as if nothing had happened.
:23:46
We just did not realize how much
the infection had damaged the brain.
:23:53
Years went by.
Five, ten, fifteen -
:23:58
- before these strange,
neurological symptoms would appear.
:24:03
But they did.
:24:07
I began to see them in the early 1930's.
:24:11
Old people brought in by their children.
:24:15
Young people brought in by their parents.
:24:19
They could no longer dress themselves
or feed themselves.
:24:24
They could no longer speak in most cases.
:24:28
Certain families went mad.
:24:31
People who were normal -
:24:33
- were now -
:24:36
- elsewhere.
:24:39
What is it like to be them?
What are they thinking?
:24:45
They are not.
:24:48
The virus did not spare
their higher faculties.
:24:52
- We know that for a fact?
- Yes.
:24:56
- Because?
- Because the alternative is unthinkable.