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"'...You and I are the kind of people other people are always trying to fit into their schemes. So suppose we didn't play along, then what?'

'Maybe I am peculiar, that I only know these strange ways of doing something. Instead of sticking to the ordinary way and doing something false.'"

"And although not convinced by her, I wasn't utterly horrified for the unborn either. To be completely consistent in that kind of economy of souls you would have to have great uneasiness and remorse that wombs should ever be unoccupied; likewise, that hospitals, prisons, and mandhouses and graves should ever be full. That wide a spread is too much."