Shall I call it homework?

First and foremost, I think that parts regarding Alice and Fay should not have been left out, so that we could better understand the story. It is possible that there was important conclusions we could have drawn from those parts.

That aside, I find the story interesting and it brings the message across to me quite deeply that once one has experienced something good or high class, he will dread going back to a situation where the standard of living is worse off. We see the genius Charlie clinging onto the last of his genius-ness, not wanting to revert to his old stupid self despite the fact that it was inevitable.

And of course, the story revels very well that as you get more intelligent or smarter, the world becomes harder to understand, problems get more complex and you generally feel more troubled. Indeed, ignorance is bliss.

Alvin Tan

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