Matty Collier, age 17:
I couldn't help feeling that I should have accomplished something by now.
It didn't need to be big. But it needed to be something that I did with no
help from anyone else, some idea that was totally my own. I knew I was
headed for anonymity the year after I graduated. I would find a job
somewhere and ease into a quiet life, maybe get married and have a few
kids. I was headed that way, but something inside me wanted to stop the
motion I needed to have my moment of glory, and after that maybe the
whole business of life would start to make sense. As it stood now, it
seemed like stupid little traditions that everyone went through without
ever asking why. I wanted to ask why. I wanted some answers.
--Barbara Hall, Skeeball and the Secret of the Universe (1987), page 24.
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