I don’t know if you read or speak English, or even
At the main doors people were restless, bodies in
if you’ll find this letter, but I’m hoping you do. I’m leaving constant motion like the ants in the Terrarium but when it by the tree you hid behind and tomorrow I shall be
the doors final y opened everyone became quite still -
watching for you.
there was a rush of air quite unlike anything I have ever felt. Not like the wind they send round the sphere – this I‘m not sure that I real y know how to write about
made my skin tingle; it carried smells I couldn’t indentify today. I mean … how do you write about something that and warmth that wasn’t soporific, it was - bizarre to say you have long dreamt about, and suddenly it happens.
but - it felt life giving. Is this what you breathe all the All the time we were in the learning zone it was all we time? How amazing. I just ran. I think I was the first out ever heard about – one day … we must make sure it’s
– I just ran and ran. I could hear shouting, warnings from safe first - and so you dream - I needed something to those who stil feared – biosphereans who were still
escape the banality of life.
biosphereans. Me? I’m now an Outsider.
My mentors of course would have sent me for
When I eventually stopped running I’d no idea
re-learning if they were to read that last
where I was. I’d run using senses I didn’t
line. Life is not banal – ‘life is an ever
know I had; I’d run feeling the planet hold
expanding process of evolution that we
out it’s hands to me and welcome me
can now control and mould to our own
home, I’d run in a cloud of joy - but when
requirements.’ I challenged one of them
I stopped I was suddenly me again. Sur-
recently and asked what had happened to
rounded by trees that are free to grow
all the other species and why we didn’t
(they get so big!!!!) I couldn’t see the
control their evolution as well. It was inter-
dome. I could see nothing that was
preted as sarcasm which didn’t go down
familiar. I know this may seem strange to
too well and anyway they trotted out the
you but it didn’t feel real – it felt like I
same answer as usual - we were the only
stepped into the laserview and they were
ones with the intellect to survive The Great
just Holograms. And then from nowhere,
Contamination. Huh, if only they knew! I
well that’s how it felt, there you were –
was so tempted to say that with intellect
were you hiding behind the tree? You
shouldn’t there be some compassion, but
were so quiet, just watching, not dressed
compassion seems to be somewhat lack-
in biospherean white but a rainbow of
ing in the Biosphere. Anyway – having
oranges, blues, so many colours I’ve
been taught everything else died in The
never seen. And then you smiled - wow!
GC there was no use wishing it was
You look my age but your skin – is that
different. But today it was - amazingly,
the weather or true aging? I hope you
beautifully, incredibly different. It was there on the don’t mind me asking - whatever the answer is you stil
laserview this morning with my wake up call. ‘Please be look amazing. Why didn’t you stay? I guess I was as aware that from 10 this morning the doors to the Outside much a shock to you as you were to me. I’ve been back will be opened - it is now safe for all Biosphereans to to the dome (found my way!) and got some food and my
leave the dome’. There were lots of warnings - the only journal. Please come back! I’m going to sleep now –
one that caught my eye was not to go too far from the
what a day – an ant is crawling up my leg – it looks like dome. As if having told me that I could go, they real y they survived too. All this time we’ve thought we were
believed they could hold me back.
the lucky ones – not quite so sure about that now. One
thing I do know - for the first time in my life I feel alive!!!!
Your friend,
I write because…