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"'Isn't it beautiful?' gasped Milo.
'Oh, I don't know,' answered a strange voice. 'It's all in how you look at things'" (102).
The voice belonged to a boy named Alec Bings, who was standing three feet above the ground in midair. Alec explains that in his family, every person is born with his head exactly where it will be when he is an adult, and he grows toward the ground.
"'You certainly must be very old to have reached the ground already,' [said Alec].
'Oh no,' said Milo seriously. 'In my family we all start on the ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we actually get there.'
'What a silly system.' The boy laughed. 'Then your head keeps changing its height and you always see things in a different way? Why, when you're fifteen things won't look at all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty everything will change again.'
'I suppose so,' replied Milo, for he had never really thought about the matter" (105).
