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| 50 | 339 | Would one, for View more quotes about example">example, feel it incumbent on one to explain things to a sleen, a kaiila, or verr? Too, of course, if the slave is kept ignorant, or uninformed, one has much more control over her. |
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| 50 | 336 | "Do you understand?" "Yes, Master," I said. |
| 50 | 337 | There are many sorts of things involved in this practice, of course. |
| 50 | 338 | For example, in not explaining things to a slave it is made further clear to her, as if she needed further proof, that she is negligible, that she is a slave, an animal, a beast. |
| 50 | 339 | Would one, for example, feel it incumbent on one to explain things to a sleen, a kaiila, or verr? Too, of course, if the slave is kept ignorant, or uninformed, one has much more control over her. |
| 50 | 340 | She is more helpless, more at one's mercy. |
| 50 | 341 | But surely, too, the masters enjoy treating us as the slaves we are, in their thousand small ways. |
| 50 | 342 | Is it not part of the pleasures of the mastery, finding amusement in keeping us in ignorance, in frustrating our desire to know? Why should we know, we are slaves! It is a small thing, but it is very real. |