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I will definitly mention that the ending was not predictable

Because it goes immediately from the meaning of life to sex with the teaching assistant

Also, it seems everything around this school dies

you read this for school?

Yes

texas education

at its finest

nice

Keep up with the story bopo

we read a poem about a whore in english

but children asking for sex...

how old were they?

How old was this story eevee

Old enough to squeel at the sight of a gerbil

Let me check the age

It was in a book of 60 short stories pulished in 1981

age of the kids?

Hmm

They never mention the age but I can only assume they are young because they are learning how to take care of freaking trees and gerbils

They squeel at the site of gerbils

Also they killed both the trees and gerbils

Maybe it is a school for mentally retarted adults

who just act as though they are 12

They are referenced as children

But no age

mentally children

childminded

Kid is used like 5 times in the first paragraph

They also have parents

That wont let them cross the picket line.

I would peg them around 12 myself

well that explains a lot

10-12

10 is weird

4 year olds are however known to be philosophical sexual devients

12 makes sense

I say 4

Keepo

noreallybold

"Then they said, but isn’t death, considered as a fundamental datum, the means by which the taken-for-granted mundanity of the everyday may be transcended in the direction of – I said, yes, maybe. "

Really, this story is full of the most philisophical freaking children

I am imagining these 12 year old kids being told that before they can go to bed, they have to read a page of aristotle or something

Aristotle, then they watch some porn

clearly

Yup

WEll, not porn

They wanted the teacher to have sex to see how its done

But they clearly hear their parents at night

hear their parents?

oh

Hear their parents going at it

oh

nvm

lol

thought you ment while they sleep for some reason

whoihc would be even wierder

that spelling

not even going to fix it

Now I am imagining kids listening to their parents' breathing while the parents sleep

Thanks bopit

no I ment the children are sleeping

nvm

it dosent matter

The story was a rollercoaster though. It went from litterally EVERYTHING dying to philosophy to sex to a new gerbil for the kids

I dont want to know what they did with the new gerbil...

They played with it. Not sexually

Well... they probably killed it 2 weeks later

how?

EVERYTHING in this place dies

EVERYTHING

but how did it die?

im going to stop now

It didnt mention it dying but from the pattern of death in the story, it was likely to die

A girl brings a dog to school. It dies in 2 weeks

Kids are told to water trees? All the trees die

so are the kids just like regular or are they like fictional stuff that takes the form of kids?

oh and how many kids die?

Protest outside the school? Somehow that causes all the salamanders around the school to drop dead