Spiritual Journal, 11/22/01

[novapsyche]

1:34 a.m.

p. 148 of 2001:

It was a secret that, with the greatest determination, was very hard to conceal--for it affected one's total outlook on the universe. Therefore it was best that Poole and Bowman, who would be on all the TV screens in the world during the first weeks of the flight, should not learn the mission's full purpose, until there was need to know.

So ran the logic of the planners; but their twin gods of Security and National Interest meant nothing to Hal. He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity--the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.