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Teaching to kill is worse than killing.
“Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle.”
He had to fire Ency because someone who’s been broken can’t be fixed.
The lights in the sky in all their appalling beauty crush him.
What he wants to do is prohibited. But he does it anyway.
gross! this dudes just a rapist ew
He wishes he could teach her to read, but what’s the point if she can’t speak and will never be part of a society that sees her only as an edible product?
So that she can write and communicate?? What a fun justification. Clearly he sees her as the same even if he’s in denial
Gastón Schafe smiles and recites the Church of the Immolation’s creed passionately and with conviction: “The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
There are mattresses on the floor. The room contains no furniture within reach; nothing that could hurt her.
From one weird cage to another
At times, it seems she’s thinking, like she really can.
He sees her as an animal.
“Have you ever eaten something that’s alive?” “I haven’t.”
Watch him eat her at the end
He thinks he can hear the scratching under the man’s skin, the contained wail, the presence that wants to get out.
To his surprise, the fingers are exquisite. He realizes how much he misses eating meat.
Turning point
He never would have imagined he’d break the very law he established.
Hanging from the trees are eyes, hands, human ears, and babies.
Feels gaudy. Like at this point the author is just coming up with the worst things he can think of to say.
When the doctor, who works late into the night, did a final run through the laboratory, the specimen attacked her and bit off part of her leg.
How ironic
As he drags the body of the female to the barn to slaughter it, he says to Cecilia, his voice radiant, so pure it wounds: “She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
Yep
