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Quote #10
In the year and a half of his life before his emigration, Younger Brother invented seventeen ordnance devices, some of which were so advanced that they were not used by the United States until World War II. (40.19)
Don't think it's a coincidence that Doctorow makes Younger Brother—an inventor of weapons—anti-social and a lost soul. When he's happier, he makes celebratory fireworks, but when he's miserable he makes explosives.