School by Isabel Pabán Freed

Author:Isabel Pabán Freed [Freed, Isabel Pabán]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bartleby Initiative

01:50:01

What?

01:50:03

That can’t be right.

01:50:06

— Johnny!

— Mia man how long have we-

— Yeah, — Mia says, — a while. It really started hitting when I was in the lab.

— Yeah?

— Just thinking about the earth. How they’re killing her. Have you been sitting here this whole time?

— I solved politics.

— Add it to the list.

(Here Mia is referring to our intrepid polymath’s knack for solving big problems, things like, e.g., gender, which, it turns out, is pretty simple: you’re either using gender or gender is using you, as Johnny is wont to say, so don’t be a mark.)

— You feeling good? — Mia asks.

— Yeah.

— Lucid?

— Sure.

— Good. We’re gonna be busy.

— Yeah?

— I just don’t get it. Why go to the trouble of cutting all this Tr-Y?

— Didn’t Rachele say it was safer?

— You saw what happened to Priya.

— True. Maybe it’s cheaper, let’s them sell more.

— Maybe . . . I don’t know, I don’t buy it. I think we should talk to Farah and see what we can find out about this dealer.

Alright, thinks Johnny, as he and Mia wrap up their conversation and head towards Farah, detectives Soufflé and Goat, on the case. It’s a funny occupation, detection. None of this long arm of the law business, naturally, but perhaps the thumb of justice—or . . . was there already a thumb of justice? wouldn’t that be more the thumb of injustice, pressing the scales down, ergo, Johnny and Mia, the Counterthumb. Community policing. Policing the community. Doesn’t sound great when you say it like that. Ah well. There’s a kind of freedom to it, private investigation. Hadn’t he had a TA who had said that? Something about social mobility. Seeing all the strata. Lets you quest too. People love to quest. Introduce a little bit of narrative into your life; give it some structure, meaning. But it’s the freedom, Johnny thinks, as he and Mia pass again under the archway, emerging into Carneval (which, at this point, is really rocking and rolling; yes, it’s gearing up to be one for the ages here; no doubt Johnny is on to something with his catharsis thesis, though calling it that may be a bit reductive: his framework is nothing if not heterodox, drawing heavily from the canonical Steam Valve literature, clearly, but also being deeply informed by the Second World thesis, among others—ever since the Linguini Twins mobilized their ecological critique, things in the field have been . . . well, we could spend all day frolicking in the thorny undergrowth of theoretical minutiae, but it seems that Johnny is on the verge of solving another, or several, of life’s great problems, and we don’t want to miss this) so if you accept that (oops!) sure, it’s obvious: all human thought is flawed. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. It’s like this. Everything is made of atoms. Atoms are made of protons, electrons, and neutrons. Protons, electrons, and neutrons are made of, what, quarks? And quarks are made of .

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