bridget625
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Here’s my theory. This girl has become a duck. In her mind, she has actually transmogrified into a duck. She’s thinking a duck’s thoughts, she’s walking a duck’s walk, she’s enjoying a duck’s afternoon, she’s throwing down a duck’s gang signs. She’s not pretending to be a duck; she is a duck.
It’s just temporary, of course. She doesn’t want to stay a duck. She just wants to try it out for a while. Children can do that. Not just with ducks. Horses, butterflies, tractors, rocks. The brains of children are more fluid, more permeable; at that age, the barriers between humankind and duck-kind aren’t hermetically sealed. So she can slide lightly into duckdom. In her mind.
Grown-ups can’t see the change, of course. And neither can the duck. That’s why adults never become ducks, and why ducks never become humans. That’s my theory.
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