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'That's for the eelecting, then?'
He shrugged. It might be, for all he knew. 'The point is, though, that everyone can do it. They're very proud of it. Everyone has-' he hesitated again, certain now that things were amiss - 'the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people The light was wrong. It had a flat quality, like water left in a glass for weeks. There was no joy to it. It illuminated, but without life; like bright moonlight rather than the light of day.
But Ptaclusp was more worried about his son.
'Do you know what's wrong with him?' he said.disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilisation.' Ptraci gave this some consideration. 'And that's a mocracy, is it?' 'They invented it in Ephebe, you know,' said Teppic, feeling obscurely that he ought to defend it. 'I bet they had trouble exporting it,' said Ptraci firmly. The sun wasn't just a ball of flaming dung pushed across the sky by a giant beetle. It was also a boat. It depended on how you looked at it.
Monday, March 23, 2009
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