The Circle
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Read between February 18 - February 21, 2014
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“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t,
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intresting thought
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“when is a secret a good thing?”
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my point exactly
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Who would do something unethical or immoral or illegal if they were being watched?
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so shaming is the way to world peace? hmm
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SECRETS ARE LIES SHARING IS CARING PRIVACY IS THEFT
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meant to be shocking, and it is a little. but untrue now and probably for a long time
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“But who wants to be watched all the time?” “I do. I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.”
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Yup
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“Most people do. Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know—they’d trade it all to know they’ve been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered.
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Fame
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Mae pictured all this. She pictured the Circle being taken apart, sold off amid scandal, thirteen thousand people out of jobs, the campus overtaken, broken up, turned into a college or mall or something worse. And finally she pictured life on a boat with this man, sailing the world, untethered, but when she tried to, she saw, instead, the couple on the barge she’d met months ago on the bay. Out there, alone, living under a tarp, drinking wine from paper cups, naming seals, reminiscing about island fires. At that moment, Mae knew what she needed to do.
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Maturity
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She’d collapsed at her desk, was found on the floor, catatonic, and was rushed here, where the care surpassed what she could have received anywhere else. Since then, she’d stabilized, and the prognosis was strong. The cause of the coma was still a subject of some debate, Dr. Villalobos had said, but most likely, it was caused by stress, or shock, or simple exhaustion.
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Annie
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With a duty that felt holy, she’d told the world about Kalden being Ty, about his bizarre claims and misguided efforts to derail the completion of the Circle.
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Book ending
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But Mae had feigned her cooperation and had escaped, and immediately told Bailey and Stenton about it all. With their customary compassion and vision, they’d allowed Ty to stay on campus, in an advisory role, with a secluded office and no specific duties. Mae hadn’t seen him since their subterranean encounter, and did not care to.
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Book ending (also haha)
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Another burst of color appeared on the screen monitoring the workings of Annie’s mind. Mae reached out to touch her forehead, marveling at the distance this flesh put between them. What was going on in that head of hers? It was exasperating, really, Mae thought, not knowing. It was an affront, a deprivation, to herself and to the world. She would bring this up with Stenton and Bailey, with the Gang of 40, at the earliest opportunity. They needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn’t they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.
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Omg hahaha book ending best ending