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| 8 | 533 | I was familiar, of View more quotes about course">course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts concealing the smoldering depths of difference, of reality, of sexuality within one. |
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| 8 | 530 | I was already ready, hot in my shackles. |
| 8 | 531 | Were there not others to be trained, as well? I did not doubt but what I would be well able to please what men might be in this place. |
| 8 | 532 | Had I not been evaluated, and purchased for this place? Was I not trained? Often, on my old world, I had been unsure as to how to relate to men, how to behave with them, I mean, really. |
| 8 | 533 | I was familiar, of course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts concealing the smoldering depths of difference, of reality, of sexuality within one. |
| 8 | 534 | But how tiresome it had been, and how frustrating, pretending to be only a surface, with no interior, no inner reality. |
| 8 | 535 | Were those who preached such stupidities, I wondered, only such a thing themselves, a one-dimensional surface, or were they simply lying. |
| 8 | 536 | Could there be very different sorts of human beings? Were some, in effect, hollow? If so, perhaps it was natural for them to suppose that others must be as empty as they. |