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“Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.”

“Eles consideram a fraude um crime maior que o roubo, e por isso raramente deixam de puni-la com a morte. Porque, segundo eles, o cuidado e a vigilância podem evitar o roubo dos bens de uma pessoa, mas a honestidade não tem proteção contra a impostura. Se uma pessoa não mantém a palavra ou trai a confiança de outra, se engana alguém para ficar com o seu dinheiro, isso é considerado um crime terrível.”

“Eles me dizem, como você ousa falar de tantas culturas, quando você não nasceu nessas culturas? Então perguntei ao sol, por que você compartilha sua luz com a terra, quando você não nasceu da terra? O sol me disse: ah você de pouca cabeça, você não sabe, a luz não é minha para dar! A luz é o direito intrínseco da vida, sou apenas um acessório do motivo.”

“Eles o amavam? Ou ele era extremamente ridículo? Talvez ele devesse mudar de turma. Talvez não estivesse errado quando se decidia em fazer algo que não sair com eles. (...) Eles pareciam todos tão infelizes com suas vidas. Talvez isso fosse um sinal de que devia se dedicar mais a sua carreira de escritor, que tinha protelado demais até aqui e agora era hora de recuperar o tempo perdido. Devia ficar mais em casa. Estava bebendo demais.”

“Eleu stood up straight and turned to face them. “If promises are made, maybe we can come to an agreement.” Molawa nodded seriously. “Promises?” Kilikina thought for a moment. “Okay. What kind of promises are you thinking of?” Eleu hopped up on the largish boulder that sat beside him and plopped down. He solemnly put one hand up in the air and spoke slowly and seriously. “One. You must promise not to fall in love with me.” Kilikina started to giggle then put her hand over her mouth. “He’s serious.” Molawa said, “I had to promise the same thing.”

“Elevated to the status of a credit subject, the consumer believes [in the myth of credit] to see in this fact his own human realization and that of his social dignity. The commodity fetishism embodies in his person as the fetish of being, to whom credit gives a sensible and objective reality: the consumer sees himself in credit as in a mirror reflecting all the human attributes emanating from possession - respectability, honesty, occupational activity, recognized and weighed by social consensus...”

“Eleven reasons you want to become a robot: 1. Robots are logical and know their purpose. 2. Robots have programming they understand. 3. Robots are not held to unattainable standards and then criticized when they fail. 4. Robots are not crippled by emotions they don't know how to process. 5. Robots are not judged based on what sex organs they were born with. 6. Robots have mechanical bodies that are strong and durable. They are not required to have sex. 7. Robots do not feel guilt (about existing, about failing, about being something other than expected). 8. Robots can multitask. 9. Robots do not feel unsafe all the time. 10. Robots are perfect machines that are capable and functional and can be fixed if something breaks. 11. Robots are happy.”

“Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light and air getting to her, and they kept her close. He stopped the wide chimneys, shaded the little windows, left the strong-stemmed ivy to wander where it would over the house-front, the moss to accumulate on the untrimmed fruit trees in the red-walled garden, the weeds to over-run its green and yellow walks. He surrounded her with images of sorrow and desolation. He caused her to be filled with fears of the place and of the stories that were told of it, and then on pretext of correcting them, to be left in it in solitude, or made to shrink about it in the dark. When her mind was most depressed and fullest of terrors, then, he would come out of one of the hiding-places from which he overlooked her, and present himself as her sole resource.”