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@@ -2056,6 +2056,16 @@ genetic engineer
 	immediate mutations in the subject.  Far from needing an
 	elaborate laboratory to accomplish such abominations, a mere
 	touch seems to be all that is necessary.
+		[]
+
+	"I thought the whole point of genetic engineering was to avoid
+	the random waste of natural evolution, and replace it with
+	the efficiency of reason," Miles piped up.  All three haut-
+	women turned to stare at him in astonishment, as if a potted
+	plant had suddenly offered a critique of its fertilization
+	routine.  "Or ... so it seems to me," Miles trailed off in
+	a much smaller voice.
+		[ Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold ]
 geryon
 	Forthwith that image vile of fraud appear'd,
 	His head and upper part expos'd on land,