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And that's it for the show. Be good. Be good, be good. Johnny, be good.

So, what do we? Just after 11 a.m. 17 November 2024, and it is time for our Sunday morning philosophy.

Chitty, chatty, bing bang, bongo, fill your boots.

Okay, fatang, fatang, ole biscuit barrel, and away we go with the

Scatter the gods.

So, questions, comments, issues, challenges problems, more than welcome and gratefully accepted.

And...

We have a question to start.

Steph, in your book, The Present, there is a scene where Rachel is

honest with the policeman and as a result he lets her leave the city. I find this scene confusing.

The policeman is a government employee who is there to keep people from leaving the city, so that

they will die waiting for help from the government. Spoiler! In that case, why would Rachel,

explaining that she would die if she doesn't leave convince him to let her go?

It's the policeman so naive that he doesn't understand his role. To me, it feels like explaining to a Nazi guard that you cannot get on the train because you would die in the camp.

I'm missing something, or perhaps I'm too cynical. Thanks. Hmm. Right. Well, in my experience, if you are honest, open, and vulnerable with

people in authority, they tend to less misuse their positions of authority.

Look, there are people who join, let's just say, some total, because it's pretty totalitarian

towards the end in my novel the future. So there are people who join the police force in a system that is sliding towards totalitarianism, right?

There are people who join the police force because they want to do the right thing and maintain order in society and catch the bad guys.

And those people tend to have doubts and misgivings as they're going forward, right?

So I gave the policeman, nothing's accidental, right?

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