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"How is nothing an absence of something if so many things revolve around it?"
Haha, awesome line! Very clever.

"You’re blinking and breathing, your fingernails are growing, and blood is pumping around your body."
I think that is too much of an extension. The teacher would have referred to any "indecent" behavioru the student did. By saying nothing, the student claims to have done no such behavior. Mentioning breathing and other obvious things aren't even a part of the discussion or desired answer. Thus the entire paragraph of yours loses meaning. I think you were trying too hard there.

"because without ‘nothing’, there can’t be something."
How so? You don't explain this conclusion; you just reach it. How did you reach this? Why is it so obvious it deserves no explanation?

And with the song; the sound of nothing is the absence of the sound that the singer imagines should be there.

When someone asks "What's wrong?" and the person replies "Nothing", they mean to tell that there is an abscence of meaningful things bothering them. If things are bothering them it is not mention-worthy (even if they are lieing this is most likely what they mean)

To me, that whole train of thought wasn't even discussed in the essay.

I think you complicated matters and by the end I wasn't as awed as I was at the start.

- Frac

Sorry, I didn't actually read it again. I'm just too tired and depressed.
However, I love you and you're brilliant writing/public speaking speeches.
Don't ever stop, no matter what's going on... which I wish I sort of KNEW.
:(
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Hello trish
Nothing is 0 or simply this