UNTITLED Annya Kong 7th Grade • Hawthorne
Stephen Hawking once said that, “A few years ago, the City Council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls...saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?” Well, Anne Way Taylor was pretty sure she knew. Knew that everyone was living in fishbowls, although probably not in the way that Stephen Hawkings was thinking of when he said that particular quote. Everyone in their own heads, and being all over themselves talking about how vast the world is, how they wish they knew more about it, how the universe is infinite, blah blah blah. As if they got it. No one got it, of course. No one knew what they didn’t know. And if that wasn’t distorted as (bleep), then Anne didn’t know what was. No swearing, Anne Taylor, she thought, and sighed. She hated rules. Well, not really. Anne just thought that, in the end, it didn’t really matter. In the end, the universe is composed of circumstance and circumstance didn’t give a (bleep) about rules. Anne sighed again. She sighed a lot. Proof: she turned to the clock on her wall, which read 8:43 PM. 2 sighs in one minute (disclaimer: no, Anne didn’t sigh twice a minute, but this certainly wasn’t her record). Anne glanced down at the paper on her desk and sighed
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