![]() ![]() If Spoiled, a boy is sent to The Corner–a place none of the boys fully understand, but know it’s a place from which there is no return. ![]() To ensure that they haven’t been exposed or threaten to ruin the experiment, the boys face an Inspection each morning to check for mysterious, malicious illnesses like rots and vees, to ensure that they haven’t been Spoiled Rotten. What happens to young men, in the absence of “distractions” ( women)? Raised from birth without any mention of or interaction with females, the Alphabet Boys are carefully monitored for every moment of their young lives. and his cohorts are running a little experiment. In fact, every book that they boys have ever read is by the same author, and his writing is always relevant to the boys’s growth, challenges, and is carefully devoid of many things–like far away cities, or cars, or most importantly, women. By the age of twelve, the boys are completing collegiate-level physics and mathematics, though their curriculum is devoid of history, theology, art, or literature. and their other teachers and minders, these young, brilliant boys–all the same age, all on the cusp of puberty–have grown up in their isolated tower, studying accelerated, carefully curated topics. Inspection follows a basic premise: there are twenty-six boys, so-called “alphabet boys” named for the letters A through Z, who live in a tower in the middle of the woods. ![]()
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