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Christ what

yes what is it sorry sir I thought

somebody said

something you haven't noticed anything

odd well not exactly odd uh unusual

about Matthew lately was he listening to

nothing or talking to himself yes

talking well both really yes he does

seem to have changed quite suddenly this

last week or so

Colin

yes do you know anybody who can hear

somebody talking kind of inside himself

but perhaps this Chuy is who he's been

talking to yes he does seem convinced

there's somebody there but who or what

an earth is

Chucky I'm back I'm in

here had a good

day all right

but

Matthew I thought his temperature was

down this morning yes well physically

he's

okay oh chalky is still staying is he I

don't think it's funny he thanked me huh

for telling chalky to go away last

night did he now said you wouldn't

listen to him I think it's very

odd I really don't know what to make of

it

I've never heard of a 12-year-old

invented a character like

this well he doesn't seem to think that

it is invented what does he think it is

then well I'm not sure

really he treats it all as though it's

absolutely real and

yet well he doesn't seem to be able to

make up his mind whether not it's a he

or a she now that is

odd I don't suppose it will do him any

harm to let him have his bit of fantasy

yes but what do we do well why don't we

just give it a bit of time play along

with it for a bit and see how it goes

well that doesn't sound very right to me

no if we go around pretending to believe

in things that aren't really there how

on Earth is a child supposed to

distinguish what's real depends on how

many people believe it isn't that what

most of the world's religions are about

you're no help at all anyway I better go

and say hello to him otherwise we'll

start thinking there is something wrong

oh take Polly's toys up with

you hi hello Dad youing better yes

thanks what you been doing with yourself

all day not much tried to do a bit of

drawing I couldn't get it

right I think Leonardo can rest

easy Colin came around but mommy said

she didn't think he ought to come up gu

I was catching quite right chalky hasn't

come back

yet Chucky yes this isn't another piff

is it no no dad everybody knows pisss

just Sun poly's

invented Chucky's real but

invisible

yes she's more a sort

of well sort of present I suppose you'd

say

ah dad you don't think I'm going mad do

you yeah

bunkers whatever gave you that

idea well Colin says hearing voices is

well-known first sign of Madness and is

that what Chuck is like a a voice that

you hear yes telling you to do things no

more asking

questions she wants to know about us the

way we live and think everything about

our world really because it's so

different from her own her own world you

mean she's from somewhere else

yes I can't understand exactly where but

I know it's a long long way away

I see so all these strange questions

you've been asking lately now for Chucky

that's right well at least we've got

that sorted

out I'll tell you something that is

bothering me though what you don't seem

very sure whether Chuck is a he or a

she no jocky doesn't know either oh

isn't that a bit uh unusual well yes I

thought so but she just doesn't know

about that sort of thing

had to explain all the differences

between men and

women team nun seems a graspit he she

sounds a bit thick oh no she's

fantastically

brilliant she just didn't know about

male and

female she thought it pretty stupid

Arrangement did she indeed yeah finds a

lot of things

stupid gets a bit boring sometimes

listening to him what sort of things

well animals for instance he thinks

animals are hilarious why she said dim

told him that's not their fault that's

where they're made quite right he's got

listen we better decide on one or the

other he or she

yeah Chucky does talk rather like a boy

but a lot of the time it's not about the

sort of things boys talk

about sometimes it's way older girls

talk bit bossy

you know yeah so Al together when I

really think about it Chucky seems more

female than male so I think I'll call

her she good well at least that's

something I wonder if we ought to get

some help why it doesn't seem to be

doing him any

harm well I don't want to find that

we've been helping to stabilize a

fantasy that we ought to have been

trying to dispel oh I'm sure we're not

and at least we've made one Advance oh

we've agreed to regard chalky as a she

really you're getting as bad as Matthew

come on we haven't got around to the

really big question yet what's that if

Chucky is real why has you chosen

Matthew

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Matthew can do it

faster he did it in seconds the other

day at my house oh that's

really second I don't know I didn't have

a watch it's the fastest I've ever

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seen no I don't

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good afternoon

everyone settle

down quiet now hello Matthew nice to see

you back thank you Miss blade who's

going to give these books back for me I

will

sharen now listen your homework was

terrible we'll go through it all again

right and pay attention

what are these Roger male and female

gamits way good at least we've got that

settled now why is the female gamy

always larger than the

male J because it stores the food for

the zygote to live on yes good now why

does the male gam always have a

tail Matthew so it can swim to the

female and fuse with it yes right now

then who can tell me what happens next

please miss yes

Matthew how do people who only have one

sex manag to

reproduce well we all only have one sex

what do you

mean

no what I meant was one kind of person

all alike not different like men and

women you mean asexual

reproduction you should know that

Matthew we've already done asexual

reproduction it only occurs in plants

not in animals

and certainly not in people sometimes it

does well that's nonsense Matthew and

you know it is don't you no miss

blade what do you mean

no it isn't nonsense Miss blade because

I know somebody like

that whatever do you

mean nothing misplayed

nothing well you must have meant

something

no

sorry all

right some eggs are bigger than others a

hen's egg for example is many times

larger than a human egg now who can tell

me why this

is Susan because the human embryo will

get its food food from the mother and

not from the egg but the hen embryo

develops outside the mother so it has to

get its food from the egg yes good well

you all seem to know it today so what

happened to your homework you came out

now I'd like you all to turn to page 107

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it's Fab Dad it's Fab Daddy really Brill

it's Brill daddy super well oh it's very

smart darling what a Dr Coe efficient

can you turn the SE I was quite right to

choose this color it's wonderful the

it's only about 0.3 can I go in it oh

it's lovely darling very

smart can see the engine can you open

the Bonnet Dad yes is that knob down

there I'll do it give it a good pull

that's

it oh I bet it's fast how fast can it go

Dad oh about 100 m hour I should

think there how's that for a bonnet full

can we go for a drive after dinner

darling can I go and get Colin to show

him later later when we've eaten now

don't touch anything I'll be back in a

minute

what

pardon it' be good for we go on holiday

all that rum in the

back oh uh Alan and philler coming

around later on to talk over the final

details who's going to take what and so

good well there's no sense in

duplicating

things Daddy what's wrong with Matthew

no

no no go

away

no whatever is it Matthew what is it

something wrong with the

car come on come inside come inside all

right come on

sh all

right come on it's all right come on

come sit

down come

on better

enough

yes yes what on Earth was wrong it the

car the

car the car exctly I think it's Brill

so I thought Chucky would be interesting

chalky so I started to tell her how it

works and

everything and wasn't she

interested she said it was silly ugly

and clumsy she laughs at it who thinks

it's bad yes dear shush I think

Matthew's chalky stupid and silly she's

stupid you know I'm stop it stop it with

me into the kitchen come on and help me

get this

up she's don't jealous yes I expect she

is what did Chucky actually say about

the car what did you find so

funny almost

everything she said the engine's

oldfashioned and funny just an engine

these gears is ridiculous anyway the car

that doesn't use its engine to St itself

as well as make itself going

stupid and dare say she has a point in

theory at

least was that all oh no she thinks it's

terribly funny to have a car that needs

Springs and wheels that have to have

inflated sausages fing around

them she says we seem to be stuck in the

ede of the wheel oh dear she has been

having a goers hasn't she I told her

that's how cars are n he's a very late

thing and she laughed and said no any

brains for making so dangerous or so

clumsy nobody's any sense with ride in

it and I got mad and started shouting at

I

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suppose did you say what car should be

like she says where she comes from Cars

don't have wheels at all

they go along above the ground I don't

need any roads or make any noise they

made so they can't crash into one

another sounds good if you could manage

it of course we have got the hovercraft

I know I told

her she says that's oldfashioned

too I'll get

it she seems to find a good many things

stupid or silly or plain oldfashioned

yeah everything

really no answer to that is there

no tell me have you found out where

Chucky comes from

yet no the trouble is if you don't know

where anything else is how can you find

out where you

are who was on the phone Mr

Trimble oh what have you been up to now

he wants to to see us tomorrow

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evening exercise books to carry thank

you I'm sorry to drag you over here but

I've got an evening class in half an

hour and this seemed the most convenient

way of doing it that's right now let's

get some seats oh thank

you these are chairs take back not so

much as the smell of cooking

so uh what's the problem well I'm not

sure it's right to describe it as a a

problem

exactly it's just there been a

remarkable change in Matthew's approach

to school over the past few weeks I'd

noticed it myself i' take him for maths

as you know but I thought he'd just been

reading something or well I don't know

and then his other subject teachers

started to talk to me about him and it

seems that this change goes right across

the board what changes that Mr dble well

I can't speak for his other subject of

course but in math he's obviously

getting some stimulus and I wondered if

he'd been getting private coaching or

anything like that no well we didn't

think there was any need thank you

perhaps on of you as a mathematician I'm

certainly not but D I'm just an

accountant of simple arithmetic yes it's

strange I wonder where it can be getting

it

from it's not um in the

family something hereditary no not as

far as we know

oh someone's been giving him ideas but I

wonder Mr Trimble no don't get me wrong

I'm all for it in a general way anything

that gets them going is welcome

but when a child is trying to cope with

two different systems it can confuse

them rather than help them

uh I'm still not sure I understand

exactly what it is you're saying Mr

trible you mean he's trying to get ahead

too fast missing out some of the steps

it's more like trying to think in two

languages at the same time two different

languages well how do you mean Mr

Trimble now at first I wasn't quite sure

what had got out of gear for the boy

then I got hold of his rough workbook

and that gave me a line on

it let me show you what I mean

no what do you reckon that means

179 how'd you get that well starting at

the right each one is double the one

before it that adds up to

179 see 100 would be like this

that's four and 32 and 64 which is 100

right yes it's What's called the binary

code is it I didn't know it's the way

chalky counts I was afraid Chucky might

have something to do with this but don't

you think it's rather

long-winded Chucky thinks it's silly

just because you happen to have 10

fingers to have to bother with 10

different fingers cuz you know you

really need is two I see yet another of

the things she finds silly you mean when

she counts she just uses yse and ends

sort of I just call them Y and N for yes

and no CU it's easier yeah it's the way

computers come but where did you come

across it Mr Trimble says you haven't

done it at school I told you Dad it's

the way Chucky always

uses I really can't take much more of

this he's beginning to drive me around

the bend you're not suggesting

know I don't

know well it's no good just telling him

to pack it in he CL away inside we need

professional help I know but what sort

of professional help well I don't know

I'm not an expert in these

things I mean the really odd thing about

it is the way chalky comes up with

things Matthew couldn't possibly know or

even think of for himself

take the business with the car you don't

seriously think he wanted to say it was

clumsy in old fashioned do

you well there has to be a logical

explanation that

is yes yes that's

right no they use it for putting

satellites into

orbit chalky I can't understand you than

you all right they start at the very

beginning wait is a s

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boss the simplest thing will be to ask

Dr acot to rec commend a consultant oh I

don't think this is really on a gp's

line and I can just imagine his

reactions assuming Matthew could be

persuaded to tell him anything which is

doubtful if only we knew something about

Matthew's

background there might be a history of

this sort of thing in the family what

sort of thing well mental disturbances

what are you

suggesting darling you've got to accept

it he's a foundling we adopted him we're

the only family he's ever had there's no

way we can find out where he came from

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yes you have to knock out all the enemy

ships before they get

you no s

okay yeah

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you

see

86 I'll never do it at top

level here you have a go I don't know

you're not chicken are you no of course

not what level a

top

there right here we go into action

a

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W you haven't lost life yet what's

happening oh heck

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