Narrator · the Evil culture experiment · ¶105
One day his hand happened to slip on the controls and as a result it was not a Generator of Good he switched on, but a Gehennerator of Evil. Instead of discarding the ruined specimen, however, he transferred it to the incubator, curious to see what monstrous form a civilization would assume when all its inhabitants were vile and vicious from their very inception.[… continues to end of ¶105 · verbatim Kandel]
Narration: The considerable inroads the fire had made on the collection of specimens required replacements, so Trurl again set about the business of making Angstromanians.
Narration: a culture no better or worse than the others!
Trurl says: Then it doesn’t matter whether one starts with Goodbodies, Benevolizers and Meliorites or with Malfeasians, Tuffs and Garroteers?
Trurl says: It makes no sense, and yet I feel close to some Great Truth here.
Trurl says: For Evil in thinking beings to produce exactly the same results as Good . . . How are we to understand this?”
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