It wasn’t that he believed a town project could change the world, but Alice’s ideas had set something in motion in his mind. He had been complaining about the system for years, if not decades. The system. Jack chuckled. This vague idea of something that screws with everyone’s lives. But Alice’s idea was kind of practical, actually not that crazy. Just saying: let’s build this experiment, let’s test, let’s make the human welfare our priority, let’s produce solid facts in a town built from scratch in every respect.
What if they could discover something?
And maybe his playfulness wasn’t gone. Maybe it was just hiding out, and all he had to do was take the shovel and dig it up, let it out again. And maybe his old self would wake up, and his children wouldn’t worry about him any more.
Sea bridge pillars mirrored in the rippling waters in different shades of brown.
DAY 6, COMMUNITY
prelude, quoting book 1, beginning
‘Maybe his playfulness wasn’t gone. Maybe it was just hiding out, and all he had to do was take the shovel and dig it up, let it out again.’
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