How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) Note that chapters aren't numbered, so need to be numbered manually, 1 to 14.
Quote #10
I shall find new interests and occupations; and I shall not give myself completely to them, as I shall never again give myself completely to anything or anybody… And this future Kelvin will be no less worthy a man than the Kelvin of the past, who was prepared for anything in the name of an ambitious enterprise called Contact. Nor will any man have the right to judge me. (13.5)
Kelvin is contemplating a life of semi-isolation, in which he won't give himself to anyone again. Is the Kelvin in future semi-isolation different from the past Kelvin? Kelvin didn't seem like a particularly open or warm person to begin with, and you could see his embrace of construct-Rheya as an affirmation of isolation, rather than a breaking with it (since Rheya is just his memory). Kelvin's future (like Rheya's?) seems like it's going to be much the same as his past—isolated, in both cases.