It's starting to unravel. Carreyou gets a tip from Alan B. (ethical lab director who quits) that things aren't right. Alan is afraid to take on E.H. He doesn't have the money and he's turned over all his files the Theranos. But he talks. Carreyou is intrigued. He goes to Phoenix to talk to doctors. The more he digs, the more he discovers that the wonder invention isn't so wonderful after all. Feels a little like All the President's Men or Spotlight now. Very exciting.
"To all humankind, Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends, she was only a frequently passing thought." Angel Clare is a good character. He's "enlightened," in so many ways, but when Tess's confesses her "crime," he reverts to ancestral form . . . Tess's "confession" comes earlier than I expected, right after Angel reveals that he has had a bad moment with a woman. Tess points out the similarity in their transgressions, though his is the only true transgression, expecting forgiveness. She doesn't get it. She returns to her mother . . . realizes she can't stay with her. Thoughts to suicide. Unhappiness that divorce is not possible. Departs. Tragic in that the two, if Angel could just see clearly, would indeed be a great couple, each adding to the other. Nature as a definite force involved in the tragedy. It's not neutral--when things go bad, the very skies mock Tess. Tess as unaware of the power of her bea...
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