Naïve Super (14 page)

After a while my brother gets up to go and buy some chocolate. I tell him I’ll be there in a minute. I tell him there are a few words I want to check. Maybe I’ve got a guilty conscience since we’ve just been having fun at other people’s expense for so long.

I do a search with some words that are more agreeable. It’s not quite as fun, but I feel I am creating a sort of balance.

This is what I find:

We walk on in the big city. The morning has been a great success. While we were sitting in the library, I hardly had a single thought. I just laughed. I tell my brother he is good at deciding.

Now we’re standing in front of the Empire State Building. It’s still raining, so we walk past without going up in the elevator. I look at the building. It is enormous. I can’t see the top. But I know time passes a little faster up there. I tell my brother, but he thinks it’s rubbish.