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The Dark Forest

CHAPTER II
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We are not unkind but we simply have other things to think about, and because we are primitive people we do what we want to do, feel what we want to feel, and show quite frankly our feelings.

He is not what we expected, so that we prefer to fill our minds with things that do not give us trouble.

Later, like all Englishmen, he will dismiss us as savages, or, if he is of the intellectual kind, he will talk about our confusing subtleties and contradictions.

But we are neither savages nor confusing.

We have simply a skin less than you....


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