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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 42 After this statement they started to talk all at once and nobody understood anything. So Rollo stopped them, “I want to hear what Tina is saying.” “I was saying that it’s a place where you can communicate with people who live very far away, but those people remain far away.” “You’re right,” Armelinda said. “When I chat on WhatsApp with my cousins who live in Portugal, I know very well that they live far from me and that it would be different if they were close to me where I could see their facial expressions.” “But how many times has it happened to you that you couldn’t go out and you searched for someone on the web with whom you could be in contact?” Fela asked. “It happens to me, and I feel as if I were on the street with my friends.” Rollo imagined Fela cut in two halves, one with his legs in the street and other with his head at home. “But what does that have to do with it?” Tina said. “You’re warm at home but on the street you’d feel cold, for example, and it’s that, together with the fact that you never have to take a bus to go back home, that makes you understand that your house is your real space.” “I think we’re not analysing things from the right point of view,” said Rosaria, who was so interested in this topic that she completely forgot her shyness. “I also believe that the internet is not like the space that we know. When I chat or surf the internet, I feel that I can move in all possible directions. I feel as if I could be up and down at the same time, as if there were no obstacles to go from one place to another.” “Wow, what a beautiful image!” Rosaria blushed at Fela’s compliment. “Yes, and I’ll tell you more,” Armelinda said. “I feel part of a whole. Think about it, when we connect with more people and exchange information, we are like so many brains that are talking to each other. It’s no longer our body, but only our mind that travels.” “So are you admitting that there is a space where our brains travel?” Rollo asked.