The Girl Who Didn't Know What To Believe
A story by Àngels Codina, Flora McCrone and Neil Stoker. Illustrations by Flora McCrone
A story by Àngels Codina, Flora McCrone and Neil Stoker. Illustrations by Flora McCrone
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sounds as if you were fine, with clothes and a home and<br />
people and food; you just had a movie inside your head<br />
that said different!” Meritxell liked the idea that there was a<br />
movie or a TV set inside her head, because she could imagine<br />
everyone’s heads being the same, except they were all<br />
switched to different channels. It made her chuckle because<br />
she knew people at school who seemed to watch nothing<br />
but sports channels, and she could imagine funny conversations<br />
between them and other people watching films about<br />
nature. One would be talking about football or skiing or<br />
gymnastics, and the other about butterflies or locusts or<br />
great white sharks. It helped her think about how scientists<br />
and food faddists and climate people could all think they<br />
knew the truth, and why they might find it hard to understand<br />
why the others believed something different. It really<br />
had felt like a different programme had been switched on<br />
in her head a week ago.<br />
Hume, unaware of any of Meritxell’s inner adventure, let<br />
alone his great philosophical namesake, yawned and stretched,<br />
and decided it was time to think about food again.<br />
THE END<br />
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