“I am sorry, and it’s no disrespect to the spacer traditions. But he’s dead, you see,” they explained in a small voice. “And I wasn’t finished with him. I was going to debate him at conferences. I was going to outdo him in the academiotypes. I was going to refute his theories. Because he owned me. I was his thing. He taught me a great deal and if not for him I’d not be me and not have achieved what I have. But I was his property, first and foremost. When I finally rejoin the Assembly and then instantiate out again it won’t matter, but for as long as I’m this me, I carry him with me. I thought
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