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| 8 | 766 | Was this View more quotes about truly">truly so strange to them? It is not so hard to understand. |
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| 8 | 763 | But what if they, secure in my old world, locked in that gloom, held within those walls, should see me so? I wondered if they would be startled, or shocked, or scandalized, or dismayed. |
| 8 | 764 | And what if they saw how willingly, how eagerly, how joyfully I did this! But I thought, rather, that they, somehow, if only after a moment or two, beneath the immediate, superficial crusts of their conditioning, on some deep level, would feel something quite different, not shock, not scandal, not dismay, but something genuinely different, perhaps at first even frighteningly so, a tremor of understanding, an unspeakable thrill of recognition. |
| 8 | 765 | I suspected then they would feel envy at the openness, the naturalness, of this, the beauty, the rightness, of it. |
| 8 | 766 | Was this truly so strange to them? It is not so hard to understand. |
| 8 | 767 | Had they not often been, if only in their dreams, in such a place? I could conceive of them being here, each of us in our collar, glancing shyly, one to the other, looking down, happily, scarcely daring to meet one another's eyes. |
| 8 | 768 | We had no choice, you must understand, given what we are. |
| 8 | 769 | Might we not even meet, perhaps while on errands, or laundering at a stream or public basin, and discuss those who held total rights over us? In their hearts, if they knew, I did not doubt but what they would envy me, how free I was here, and what I could do. |