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Perceptions of Reality
The incident with the addled Mrs. Bentley pointed up my recurring problem — namely, what to make of reality. As this point, I wasn't so sure my grip on it was any more firm than, say, Farnsworth's. Knowing who was doing what to whom and why had been my biggest challenge since taking this job. And poking around asking questions might only make matters worse, as Zitts and Vivi had already warned.
Trusting my instincts always felt right — except when they turned out to be wrong, which was too much of the time. Advising Felicia so boldly about the weather, for example, had been an innocent-enough but costly mistake in terms of our mutual trust. But then you'd think her trust in me would have gone totally out the window when she'd picked up so quickly on my dallianc
