The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Chapters 181–233

The northeast corner of the field is highest and the southwest corner is lowest (I had a compass because we were going on holiday and I wanted to know where Swindon was when we were in France) and the field is folded downward slightly along the line between these two corners so that the northwest and southeast corners are slightly lower than they would be if the field was an inclined plane.

And I realize that I told a lie in Chapter 13 because I said “I cannot tell jokes,” because I do know 3 jokes that I can tell and I understand and one of them is about a cow, and Siobhan said I didn’t have to go back and change what I wrote in Chapter 13 because it doesn’t matter because it is not a lie, just a clarification.

And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.

But this is not a very accurate map of the station because I was scared so I was not noticing things very well, and this is just what I remember so it is an approximation.

And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don’t have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the protractor or the biscuit again.

And then I did some maths practice in my head, solving quadratic equations...

Take the Bakerloo Line to Willesden Junction or the Jubilee to Willesden Green.

And someone sat down on the other end of the bench and it was a lady who had a black briefcase and purple shoes and a brooch shaped like a parrot.

Stimulated by the sights and smells, you realise that you have arrived in a land of contrasts. You seek out the traditional, the natural and the cosmopolitan.

And after Mr. Shears had gone to work she made a telephone call to the office and took what is called Compassionate Leave, which is when someone in your family dies or is ill.

And I wondered whether you could tessellate crosses, and I worked out that you could by imagining this picture in my head...

And in the afternoon Mother took me to Hampstead Heath in a taxi and we sat on the top of a hill and looked at the planes coming into Heathrow Airport in the distance.

And Mother spoke very slowly and she said, “We are going back to Swindon because if we stay in London any longer...someone was going to get hurt. And I don’t necessarily mean you.”

And then Mother went away and I drew a picture of a bus using perspective so that I didn’t think about the pain in my chest and it looked like this...

And she said people wouldn’t want to read the answers to a maths question in a book, and she said I could put the answer in an Appendix, which is an extra chapter at the end of a book which people can read if they want to.