So she was just going to stay there in that flat, with Jojo, and never move until she was made to leave the country.
Maybe even suicide would have been too active. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don’t even try to change.
Maybe that was most lives. “Yes,” said Nora, aloud now. “Maybe I got stuck. Maybe in every life I am stuck.
I mean, maybe that’s just who I am. A starfish in every life is still a starfish.
There isn’t a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.
And maybe there isn’t a life where I’m not stuck.” “Well, I think you are wrong.
“Okay, then. I would like to try the life where I am not stuck. What life would that be?”
“Aren’t you supposed to tell me?” Mrs Elm moved a queen to take a pawn, then turned the board around.
“I’m afraid I am just the librarian.” “Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds.”
“They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines.”
“Exactly. But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box.”
“And sometimes you have to try a few things before that becomes clear.”
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