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| 12 | 659 | We are in all ways View more quotes about subject">subject to the complete and perfect control of our masters, and we are totally at their mercy, always, whether we can read or not. |
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| 12 | 656 | They think, it seems, that that is simply appropriate for a slave, that she be kept illiterate. |
| 12 | 657 | Or, perhaps, they think that this makes them easier to control and puts them more at their mercy. |
| 12 | 658 | Such a view, however, would seem to me incorrect. |
| 12 | 659 | We are in all ways subject to the complete and perfect control of our masters, and we are totally at their mercy, always, whether we can read or not. |
| 12 | 660 | Certainly an illiterate master, say, of the tharlarion drivers, may relish having a former high-caste beauty, perhaps of the scribes or builders, educated and literate, cleaning his stalls and, when commanded, crawling to him over the boards on her belly begging his touch. |
| 12 | 661 | There are no particular regularities involved in these matters and it is not unusual for a literate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves, nor for an illiterate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves. |
| 12 | 662 | The slaves are slaves, whether literate or not. |