The Business of Apartment H (Anthology of Horror in F-Sharp Major Book 4)
Book Details
Author(s)Rene David Rivero
PublisherKrypto Morph Media
ISBN / ASINB00DGV3RMI
ISBN-13978B00DGV3RM3
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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The Business of Apartment H
Briggs is an ambitious student of neurology at Columbia. Maybe a little too ambitious.... His ideas about consciousness take a turn that's very sick and twisted when he meets the Old Man, Kirkyard, a neighbor at Apartment H and a former, disgraced researcher at Columbia. Kirkyard's grizzly WWII-derived work got him kicked out of the university (and got a few people killed too) yet Briggs sells his soul to get access to the Old Man's laboratory and the fame it promises to bring.
When Kirkyard restarts a twenty-year-old experiment that threatens to destroy Brigg's life is it too late to escape from the business of Apartment H?
excerpt
"They said he worked as a spy in Germany. I did not know anything about West until I attended Columbia. It was not until his year at South America that I noted the change. Superficially, he'd say, oh, the intent is to 'massage' the brain to 'revitalize' its function. But he wanted to do more.... And just what is it you want to do?"
"To study the link between the mind and the body," [Briggs] replied as he sat by the table - then - he sipped a share of the coffee. "I suspect it's the networks of neurons that give rise to consciousness. Maybe as a kind of accident, a side-effect, of its function."
"An accident? Well.... Maybe when Nature invented the neuron, millions and millions of years ago. Maybe, then, it was an accident. Until it proved too good an advantage to have than to not have. Didn't you notice it? The truth is revealed by its evolution. The brain - it starts with nerves - raw and simple - at junctions between tissues. Then it develops ganglia. Then it develops cords. Then you need bones to protect all of it and you get spines. Flowering out of spines is the rest of the skeleton. Yes, the creature takes it shape. First the brain. Then the body. The body - it's just a vehicle. It's nothing, nothing. But the body - it grows and grows - and to cope with that complexity a ganglia forms at the tip of the spine. And it's not enough; it sprouts ganglia of ganglia all of it interconnected. So you get a skull to protect it. The body escapes out of the ocean. The brain is free to attain more and more structure. They develop together, brain and body.... With man - and god only knows if others share it - the physical constraint of matter reached its limit and to support functions beyond ... it was necessary to evolve into a new and different direction. A transcendental direction. Consciousness, as we call it."
Briggs is an ambitious student of neurology at Columbia. Maybe a little too ambitious.... His ideas about consciousness take a turn that's very sick and twisted when he meets the Old Man, Kirkyard, a neighbor at Apartment H and a former, disgraced researcher at Columbia. Kirkyard's grizzly WWII-derived work got him kicked out of the university (and got a few people killed too) yet Briggs sells his soul to get access to the Old Man's laboratory and the fame it promises to bring.
When Kirkyard restarts a twenty-year-old experiment that threatens to destroy Brigg's life is it too late to escape from the business of Apartment H?
excerpt
"They said he worked as a spy in Germany. I did not know anything about West until I attended Columbia. It was not until his year at South America that I noted the change. Superficially, he'd say, oh, the intent is to 'massage' the brain to 'revitalize' its function. But he wanted to do more.... And just what is it you want to do?"
"To study the link between the mind and the body," [Briggs] replied as he sat by the table - then - he sipped a share of the coffee. "I suspect it's the networks of neurons that give rise to consciousness. Maybe as a kind of accident, a side-effect, of its function."
"An accident? Well.... Maybe when Nature invented the neuron, millions and millions of years ago. Maybe, then, it was an accident. Until it proved too good an advantage to have than to not have. Didn't you notice it? The truth is revealed by its evolution. The brain - it starts with nerves - raw and simple - at junctions between tissues. Then it develops ganglia. Then it develops cords. Then you need bones to protect all of it and you get spines. Flowering out of spines is the rest of the skeleton. Yes, the creature takes it shape. First the brain. Then the body. The body - it's just a vehicle. It's nothing, nothing. But the body - it grows and grows - and to cope with that complexity a ganglia forms at the tip of the spine. And it's not enough; it sprouts ganglia of ganglia all of it interconnected. So you get a skull to protect it. The body escapes out of the ocean. The brain is free to attain more and more structure. They develop together, brain and body.... With man - and god only knows if others share it - the physical constraint of matter reached its limit and to support functions beyond ... it was necessary to evolve into a new and different direction. A transcendental direction. Consciousness, as we call it."
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