It wasn’t that humans were inevitably dangerous, but they were unpredictable.

It was best to let those in power do what they wished while finding some advantage in it for oneself.

No immortal could think of death without yearning for it.

By degrees, they had less use for words or English.

Are you trying to reason with me? asked Hermes. – There’s no need to be insulting,

can there be a feeling greater than belonging? – No,

Perhaps it was best to be a dog as dogs had always been: not separated from others by thinking but part of the collective.

He had been selfish in trying to keep his language pure; better it had been influenced by another tongue than that it disappear altogether.

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