La pregunta 7

"Sometimes I wonder why we insist on returning to the beginning; why we search for that specific thread we might pull to unravel the tapestry we consider our life." That is precisely what the author sets out to do in these pages: to unravel his own existence—a journey that takes him from H.G. Wells to the dawn of nuclear physics; from his father’s captivity in Japan—as a prisoner of war subjected to forced labor—to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; and from the genocide and colonization of Tasmania to his eye-opening experience as a student in the United Kingdom.