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When I first started here, there was a detailed manual that taught me how to be a store worker, and I still don’t have a clue how to be a normal person outside that manual.
My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.
After all, I absorb the world around me, and that’s changing all the time. Just as all the water that was in my body last time we met has now been replaced with new water, the things that make up me have changed too.
The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.
Maybe I’m working because I want to be a useful tool.
When you do physical labor, you end up being no longer useful when your physical condition deteriorates. However hard I work, however dependable I am, when my body grows old then no doubt I too will be a worn-out part, ready to be replaced, no longer of any use
Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”
“No. It’s not a matter of whether they permit it or not. It’s what I am.
