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The language of starlings reminded her of nothing so much as the language of scholarly papers, the smooth and chilly syntax devoid of contour, the maddening reliance on 'the royal we' as the subject. Yet this was not the royal we, not in the sense that a pompous colleague or one of her lazy graduate students might use it: at least twenty birds had together formed the multilayered sound that came to her as English words.
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― Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012
― Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
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― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

































