He seems to be an amiable sort of chap, the
way he smiled at Monique that time at the café, one might think he was keen on
her. Mind you appearances can be deceptive. Number 100 is a clever fellow, he
radicalized Number 51 the Watchmaker, having turned him into a terrorist and
bomb maker. We shall never know if such thoughts as to what he is doing for
principle, are actually his own. The citizens are in this prison for life, but
he’s met no-one who has committed a crime. That he’ll protest in a manner they
cannot ignore. He does not see that such an act would be murder, he sees it as
assassination. For what Number 51 is soon to do the entire Village will be
punished. But the little Watchmaker only sees that as being what they need to
wake them up, to shake them out of their lethargy, presuming they survive the
punishment! There is no turning Number 51 because he thinks they do not
understand, but it’s he who doesn’t understand. This man, Number 100, has
turned a mild mannered man into a principled anarchist! He once told Number 2
that he’s never had a failure yet, and he wouldn’t have one with the
Watchmaker. And yet he did fail from a right hook from Number 6! Not so sure
about the pink blazer, it looks like the Schizoid Man’s blazer, but dyed pink!
Be seeing you
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