In Zero K Don DeLillo has found the perfect physical repository
for his oracular visions, his end-time reveries, his balladry of dread.
The place is called the Convergence. It is a sealed, self-sufficient,
subterranean cryogenic facility, funded by wealthy patrons and secret
government agencies. Within are chambers in which the bodies of hundreds
of wealthy patrons are frozen in gleaming pods. The essential organs
are stored within smaller pods. The bodies and organs are to rest in a
state of suspended animation until our inevitable, impending apocalypse
has run its course. One character calls this “faith-based technology.”
It requires several forms of faith: that the pods will remain frozen
indefinitely; that future civilizations will be able to reanimate the
bodies and grant them immortality; that life in the distant future will
be preferable to death.
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