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| 20 | 65 | There are simple View more quotes about reasons">reasons for that. |
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| 20 | 62 | What a stupid slave he must have thought me! I was upset, for we are intelligent, almost always, and we wish our intelligence to be recognized by our masters. |
| 20 | 63 | Indeed, I suspected that intelligence figured into the criteria of acquisition commonly used by slavers. |
| 20 | 64 | Intelligence, in any event, is almost always prized in a slave. |
| 20 | 65 | There are simple reasons for that. |
| 20 | 66 | Intelligent women are more quickly and easily trainable; they learn more quickly; they are quickly apprised, for example, of what the whip can do to them, and so they are almost immediately zealously eager to please; accordingly, they are less likely to be frequently whipped; they tend, too, to have good memories, say, for the master's friends and appointments, and so on; too, they are more aware and sensitive; they learn like dogs to be alert to the master's subtlest moods, and govern themselves accordingly. |
| 20 | 67 | Too, they are inventive, and imaginative, and this makes them adept in diversifying the repasts they prepare, and the pleasures they provide. |
| 20 | 68 | Too, sometimes the master wishes to talk about a thousand things, in depth and at length, and what a joy to him it is, it seems, to share these things, a thousand thoughts and observations, and intimacies, with his slave, she perhaps kneeling lovingly before him, naked, his, her hands thonged behind her back. |