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have seen my wife take her skin off, you know. Since you came all the way down, eh? Peel the white skin of her arm clean off like an opera glove. Take off her face from the top down.’
‘But the filer didn’t know that. The requirement would greatly increase the filer’s fear of a phantom dependent being detected.’
‘It’s not as if Line 5 was his only éclat. We’re just giving you an example. What he really is is a genius of human motivations and incentives and designing systems to achieve them.’
that true decency was very different from pathological generosity, because pathological generosity did not take into account the feelings of the people who were the object of the generosity?