


'Algebra?' said Madam Frout 'But that's far too difficult for seven-year-olds!' It's just that I've left the class doing algebra, and they get restless when they've finished.' 'What precisely was it you wanted, madam?' she said. '-grow up to be cats and dogs, which are even less interesting,' said Miss Susan, 'whereas children should grow up to be adults.'" 'Learning through play,' said Madam Frout, grateful to find familiar territory. 'I mean,' the headmistress mumbled, 'childhood is a time for play and-' 'You should not be teaching them to read at all yet!' she snapped. 'But that's a dreadf-' Madam Frout stopped, and began again. It would have been rude of me to say that there is a circle of Hell reserved for teachers like Miss Smith.' We're reading Grim Fairy Tales at the moment.' 'My children have learned to expect a plot. 'Miss Smith thinks a good book is about a boy and his dog chasing a big red ball,' said Miss Susan. Their reading ability is, she says, rather unfortunately advanced. although Miss Smith has told me that the children coming up from your class are, er, restless. “There have been complaints?' said Miss Susan. express herself by shouting some, some, some terrible words.” why had they copied internal organs? Yuerkkk. She was being harassed by her internal organs.

The Auditors could survive quite well by exchanging molecules with their surroundings and making use of any local source of energy. The stomach was a bag for digesting food. There was this horrible desire, second by second, to hang on.Īnd she felt hungry. She could leave it at any time and yet, and yet. This wretched body was full of opportunities for yuerkkk. Īs far as she knew, in the whole life of the universe, no Auditor had ever experienced the sensation of yuerkkk. It was ridiculous to have to communicate by flapping bits of your skin, and as for the tongue.
