“You have
vindicated the right of the individual to be individual.”
{The High Court Judge - Fall Out}
High praise
indeed, especially when individualism has always been frowned upon in The
Village. But a former Number 2 once described individuals as “always trying.” Meaning
they are just plain trying difficult or annoying, and hard to endure. Just
because one is a number it doesn’t stop one from being a person or individual. We
are all individuals, and individuals go to make up society. And society cannot
survive without individuals, well it can, but what would that make society?
But can it really be that they would have given in so
easily, and so suddenly, in deciding that the former Number 6 knows the way,
and he was asked to show them. Did the High Court Judge, who was but a former
Number 2 himself, really have that power to make such a monumental decision as
that? Perhaps he did, after all it was the Judge who issued the order to
evacuate The Village. Or maybe more likely the Judge is but a former Number 2,
who had been brought back to The Village while his predecessor was deliberating
with Number 6 in the Embryo Room. And that once that week was up, with Number 2
having lost his life, the incumbent Number 2 had been instructed to have one last
throw of the dice, one final manipulation of Number 6 in ‘Fall Out.’ That might
account for the fact that it was the Judge who gave the order to evacuate The
Village, because he was the incumbent Number 2 at the time, and no-one of
authority was in a better position than he to give such an order.
Be seeing you
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