The Top Hat

...The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...

In this chapter, Sophie recieves her first official philosophy course booklet. It speaks of what philosophy is; breaks it down to some questions like "Is there life after death?" "How was the world created?". It explains at how Philosophy isn't a petty hobby, but an intricate, challenging experience to take on. The main analogy used is that we are a rabbit pulled out of a top hat, the rabbit being earth, and how we are born on the tips of the fur exposed to everything, amazed at everything around us; then when we age, we grow closer to the skin of the rabbit, where it's warm, comfortable, easy to bear, everything is farmiliar. As we become more engrossed with philosophy, we climb higher up the rabbit's fur again, realizing everything as new and amazing. The last section of this chapter is about how the world is so incredible. Out of the infinite possibilites of what the earth could be - it is what it currently is now. It speaks of how people have grown into how everything is "normal" when it is really so, so, so, extraordinary.