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a ship sailing through life with a cargo1 of genes2
Hilde was awakened3 on Sunday morning by a loud bump. It was the ring binder4 falling on the floor. She had been lying in bed reading about Sophie and Alber-to's conversation on Marx and had fallen asleep. The reading lamp by the bed had been on all night.
The green glowing digits5 on her desk alarm clock showed 8:59.
She had been dreaming about huge factories and polluted cities; a little girl sitting at a street corner selling matches--well-dressed people in long coats passing by without as much as a glance.
When Hilde sat up in bed she remembered the legislators who were to wake up in a society they themselves had created. Hilde was glad she had woken up in Bjer-kely, at any rate.
Would she have dared to wake up in Norway without knowing whereabouts in Norway she would wake up?
But it was not only a question of where she would wake up. Could she not just as easily have woken up in a different age? In the Middle Ages, for instance--or in the Stone Age ten or twenty thousand years ago? Hilde tried to imagine herself sitting at the entrance to a cave, scraping an animal hide, perhaps.
What could it have been like to be a fifteen-year-old girl before there was anything called a culture? How would she have thought? Could she have had thoughts at all?
Hilde pulled on a sweater, heaved the ring binder onto the bed and settled down to read the next chapter.
Alberto had just said "Next chapter!" when somebody knocked on the door of the major's cabin.
"We don't have any choice, do we?" said Sophie.
"No, I suppose we don't," said Alberto.
On the step outside stood a very old man with long white hair and a beard. He held a staff in one hand, and in the other a board on which was painted a picture of a boat The boat was crowded with all kinds of animals. "And who is this elderly gentleman?" asked Alberto.
"My name is Noah."
"I guessed as much."
"Your oldest ancestor, my son. But it is probably no longer fashionable to recognize one's ancestors."
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