“Because cancer is the aristocracy of the body. It captures the means of growth for its own use. It convinces the body to serve it, and delivers nothing in return. If it grows too much it brings the whole body down.” She had that old, old accent again. “We see how our lords destroy the people they rule. We think that if we can make a cancer that can live in peace with the body … then we can be like it. Cancer without grief. Aristocracy without end. We overthrow our lords, but in the end we fail to rule the people well. I do not hate the mbo for driving us into the jungle. But they need us now,
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