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| 8 | 1972 | "Now," said View more quotes about astrinax">Astrinax, "let us suppose that the girl who has been given the candy wants to save it, to postpone the pleasure of eating it until later, perhaps to when her work is done, and hides it somewhere, perhaps in the straw of her mat, and you, unbeknownst to her, have observed this". |
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| 8 | 1969 | One wonders if the free can understand how important such a tidbit, negligible from their point of view, so tiny, savory, and sweet, can be to one of your despised collar girls. |
| 8 | 1970 | Even today such a thing is meaningful to me, and my master may or may not grant it to me, as it pleases him, but, at that time, in the place of Menon, so small a thing seemed inordinately precious, and important. |
| 8 | 1971 | I had not had such a sweet since Earth, since my "harvesting" as one of the ill-protected, exposed, dangling fruits so easily available to slavers in the "slave orchard of Earth," no, not since my acquisition, my capture, my routine snaring, merely another sleek, defenseless animal, ignorant and unsuspecting, easily taken as the prize of methodical hunters. |
| 8 | 1972 | "Now," said Astrinax, "let us suppose that the girl who has been given the candy wants to save it, to postpone the pleasure of eating it until later, perhaps to when her work is done, and hides it somewhere, perhaps in the straw of her mat, and you, unbeknownst to her, have observed this". |
| 8 | 1973 | "Yes, Master?" I said, warily. |
| 8 | 1974 | "Let us further suppose that you might, unobserved, and unsuspected, and with utter impunity, steal it. |
| 8 | 1975 | Would you do so?" I did not care for this conversation. |