Out there next to Labrador’s glacier, people told her, there was one yurt community that brought up their children as if they were Inuit or Sami, or for that matter Neanderthals. They followed caribou and lived off the land, and no mention of the ship was made to their children. The world to these children was simply four kilometers long, a place mostly very cold, with a big seasonal shift between darkness and light, ice and melt, caribou and salmon. Then, during their initiation ceremony around the time of puberty, these children were blindfolded and taken outside the ship in individual
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I can't imagine such a profound moment, how you learn that the entire world is different from what you thought. How one moment you think, "This is everything, I know it ALL!" and then the next moment you learn, beyond all doubt, that you are only a tiny part of a much bigger creation.
Wow.
