Summary
Merab Eberle’s short science-fiction piece centers on a scientist named MacDowell, working in the Black Hills, who claims to have found a substance called the mordant. The narrator, a reporter, follows MacDowell’s work as it moves from skepticism and public disbelief toward a startling explanation: the mordant can slow aging and preserve youth, though MacDowell rejects the idea of endless life as a blessing. The story frames immortality as a question of whether extending bodily youth would truly help humanity.
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