Actually, that is part of the point of the book. While Titus does feel guilty, his girlfriend dies alone. Ironically, the reason she dies is that she did not have the feed implanted at birth, and it rejects her/she rejects it. Whether life goes on is left as an excercise for the reader - but remember, the lesions everyone are getting are actually become fashionable. One of the girls in Titus' clique gets plastic surgery to make her lesions bigger and redder than anyone else's.
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I thought one of the most telling scenes in the book was a ride they took to "the country." They found a steak farm that allowed visitors to watch the blood flowing through tubes to irrigate fields of steak, with the occasional horn or hoof sticking out of a hedge of beef. I recall Titus thinking that it was important to visit these kinds of places so people would remember where their food really came from.
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Actually, that is part of the point of the book. While Titus does feel guilty, his girlfriend dies alone. Ironically, the reason she dies is that she did not have the feed implanted at birth, and it rejects her/she rejects it. Whether life goes on is left as an excercise for the reader - but remember, the lesions everyone are getting are actually become fashionable. One of the girls in Titus' clique gets plastic surgery to make her lesions bigger and redder than anyone else's.
I thought one of the most telling scenes in the book was a ride they took to "the country." They found a steak farm that allowed visitors to watch the blood flowing through tubes to irrigate fields of steak, with the occasional horn or hoof sticking out of a hedge of beef. I recall Titus thinking that it was important to visit these kinds of places so people would remember where their food really came from.