Thought For The Day

    There are several categories of Village citizen. Top of the food chain is  No.2, who has been recruited to The Village, or was once a prisoner himself, and thereby is trusted to leave after his or her term of office. Then there are those recruited to The Village, all those people who are needed to run and look after The Village, electricians, bricklayers, carpenters. Window cleaners, gardeners, laboratory technicians, administrators, doctors, nurses, Guardians and warders, the list would be endless. Then there are those like the Professor and his wife who came to The Village of their own free will, but never be allowed to leave. Nadia Rakovsky a plant, the Colonel used in an experiment of mind change, who was allowed to leave. The Colonel and Fortheringay who aided in the deception of the Prisoner in the attempt to extract the reason behind the Prisoner’s resignation.

     People are brought to The Village who have knowledge that is important to No.2. People who cannot be left around. Who know too much, or too little, the knowledge inside their heads of great value to one side or another. And that knowledge to be either protected or extracted. As in the case of Roland Walter Dutton, who told them all he knew. And Cobb, how long did he hold out before he told them all they wanted to know? Who was turned, and was to be able to leave The Village and work for his new masters. Chambers, who resigned from the Foreign Office, who had been brought to The Village, he was so talkative, I doubt very much that extreme measures were used against him. Who may very well have been turned like Cobb, and eventually able to leave The Village.

    And finally there are those who you wonder why they were ever brought to The Village in the first place. For example Alison-No.24, No.8 who loved No.6. The ex-Admiral, and the General. Or the maid No.66 who couldn't remember her parents, who was probably not brought to The Village at all, but was born there. Then No.51 the Watchmaker was probably recruited to The Village, he might have brought his wife with him. They had a daughter Monique-No.50 which is really one of two only suggestions of family life within The Village, along with the two boys and the girl who No.6 child minds occasionally. Monique in all probability was also born of The Village, depending on how long No.51 has been in the Village, his wife probably died there!

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