The loss of the bottle was one of those “harsh realities” with which she was not unfamiliar. If she was relatively equanimous about it, it was because Wiggs was teaching her that “harsh realities” were not the only realities: that there were many different realities, and to a certain extent, with the proper focus of energy, one could choose which reality one wished to live. One might even outwit the harshest reality of all.
