Rakitin reminded him of a fellow cadet he'd known back at the academy. Simon Federman. David considered himself to be intelligent, but Simon had operated on a different level altogether, like the way dogs could hear a frequency beyond human ears.
Rakitin was like that. He clearly made connections between things that David couldn't fathom, conceptual links that were lost on other people. David didn't mind not being able to follow it.
"You remind me of someone," he said. "A friend, I think."
He leaned back, and closed his eyes again.
"So you're saying...you went into forensics because you wanted to understand. To make sense of why things happen beyond cause and effect. To find some order and meaning in the unknowable."
David cracked open his eyes to look back at the pathologist.
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Date: 2007-10-29 04:02 pm (UTC)But he smiled then, with genuine goodwill.
Rakitin reminded him of a fellow cadet he'd known back at the academy. Simon Federman. David considered himself to be intelligent, but Simon had operated on a different level altogether, like the way dogs could hear a frequency beyond human ears.
Rakitin was like that. He clearly made connections between things that David couldn't fathom, conceptual links that were lost on other people. David didn't mind not being able to follow it.
"You remind me of someone," he said. "A friend, I think."
He leaned back, and closed his eyes again.
"So you're saying...you went into forensics because you wanted to understand. To make sense of why things happen beyond cause and effect. To find some order and meaning in the unknowable."
David cracked open his eyes to look back at the pathologist.
"Am I close?"