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His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
The community of the righteous, holding their sessions in corners, over the telephone, behind closed doors. Gleeful whispers. Schadenfreude. First the sentence, then the trial.
That is what whores are for, after all: to put up with the ecstasies of the unlovely.
No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts.’
