 What does the encounter with Guy and Em tell the reader about the narrator?
Yet I had always been so sure I could create them that I had been calling them volplas for ten years. Again in the laboratory, I entered the metabolic accelerator and withdrew the intravenous needles from my first volplas. The accelerator had forced them almost to adulthood in less than a month. It would be several hours before they would begin to move, to learn to feed and play, perhaps to learn to fly. I flipped a hamburger and a slice of onion onto a plate and picked up the ketchup and said, "I've reached the dangerous age." I wiped the back of my hand across my mouth and said aloud, "Yes, sir, the dangerous age. I kissed her until I heard rollerskates coming across the terrace from one direction and a horse galloping toward the terrace from the other direction. I've only had the feeling once before in a small way, but I've always...." Outside this little town, I found a litter of flat stones that had young black-snakes under each slab. I filled a pail with them and took them into town and dumped them on the walk in front of the movie just as Theda Bara's matinee let out. I learned how great it can be to stand around quietly and watch people encounter the surprise that you have prepared for them." Except for the face, chest and belly, they were covered with a soft, almost golden down. The cranium was in the same proportion to the body as it is in the human.
 The narrator is so immersed in his own experiment that he loses sight of his peers' significant accomplishments.
 The narrator is more of an original prankster than a scientist.  The narrator does not understand the implications that launching Rocket Charlie will have on science.  The narrator intends to deter rather than advance science.  The narrator is so immersed in his own experiment that he loses sight of his peers' significant accomplishments.