…most people are almost blind and don’t see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren’t connected and are silly, like, I’m worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.
And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly.
And this is why I like timetables, because they make sure you don’t get lost in time.
So I climbed onto the middle shelf and I pulled one of the cases across like a door so that I was shut in, and it was dark and there was no one in there with me and I couldn’t hear people talking so I felt much calmer and it was nice.
Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.
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