Factory isn’t working very hard instead of in the middle of the day when everyone is awake and has become used to getting all the Berries they want whenever they want them.

“The problem with building another Factory is that it will take years and millions of dollars to get the Factory working. And it means that we will need to build another railroad track because the purple rocks we already use for the Factory we already have take up the whole train track each day. We also have to build another train—each Purple Rock Train has one hundred cars which are filled and

emptied each day! And then we have to get the people who live near the mountain where the purple rocks come from to let us take Even More purple rocks from the mountain they call their backyard. Many people there don’t want us to take any purple rocks even now.

And there’s another problem with the Factory that we already have. The Furnace mixes those crushed purple rocks and water to make the Berries, but it also makes something else that no one knows what to do with. We call it Ceeotu. We don’t need it or want it, so we throw it out the window. The wind takes it away. Fortunately that Ceeotu is so tiny you can’t see it, and fortunately it doesn’t smell. For a long time no one worried about it—since we couldn’t see or smell it, it didn’t seem to bother anyone. Now we realize that it didn’t just somehow disappear, but it went “somewhere”.  Because we couldn’t see it, we didn’t realize it was piling up, and, you know, Bobby, that the Earth is Big”—Steve stretched out his hands again like he was describing a

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