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Or loss of autonomy.
“They’re not human, Wright. They don’t care about white or black.”
Haha
I can find myself a human man if I need one.
I met a few more of them and liked their variety—
Three of the buildings I had mistaken for barns or storage buildings proved to be full of offices, studios, and workshops.
Nice
“We fill our time as we please,”
Jill ...
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Wayne Go...
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Haha
Wayne and Manning,
graze on strangers
Haha
Wayne
tallest in his family.
“Theodora Harden,”
Haha 2005 indeed
Christian Brownlee
the ninety or so adult humans in the community,
Carmen Tanaka,
Haha
“Victor Colon.”
He’d already finished two.
Haha
“Dirty little nigger bitch,” he said reflexively. “Goddamn mongrel cub.”
“The Gordons will help you,” Joel said. “Preston and Hayden are decent old guys. They can be trusted.” I nodded. “I know.” But of course I didn’t know. I hoped.
Haha
“You need to touch your symbionts more,”
“And we need to be touched.
Daniel’s
Cool
I didn’t want to confront them with the reality of what could happen to them if some Ina who hated me got hold of them.
He was the alien among us, the human being among nonhumans, and he knew it.
They must know more than I did about questioning humans who had been misused by Ina.
Preston
Hayden,
Altadena,
the San Gabriel Mountains,
Gold Bar.
Darrington.
Arlin...
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He was not the one I had to stop if I were going to survive.
‘Silk’?”
I did care what happened to him. I couldn’t ignore him.
Ethics
“Once we’ve questioned them, you might as well. You’ve already bitten them.” He didn’t sound entirely happy about this. I wondered why.
Why? Do one’s ethical I imperatives and emotional demands go with one’s venom? Question
he wouldn’t survive being questioned by males.
Haha. OEB is so smart
Hayden
believers look outward either to the supernatural or to rather questionable science.”
Haha
Your parents believed the stories were metaphors and mythologized history. We do, too. None of us are much interested in things mystical.
Haha
Ten thousand years ago, we were already thinly spread among human tribes and family bands. Even then, that was the most comfortable way for us to live.
