| Ellesha: | Finally - a work without political agendas! |
| Jules: | Look closely: it extols one theme while ignoring others. Isn't that political? |
| Philyra: | We've got to learn to see everything as political: the things we buy, the stuff we say, the clothes we wear, and of course the crap we write. |
| Andrei: | Yawh take things too far . . . Why not relax 'n enjoy a kool beer? Politics iz mostly 'bout whud's between people's heads. I'm more interested in other parts ah zhe anatomy. |
| Ellesha: | When we think too much about politics something precious is lost. Perhaps we need ta bekum more natural & non- political. |
| Jules: | Ah non! We're naturally political animals . . . |
| Soo: | And ah . . . naturally dose in powaa, ah ha, don't want us to know dat. |
| Elijah: | Don't worry about what they want. The question is: what do you really want? To answer that, notice where your awareness goes. |
| Ning: | . . . The human capacity to argue about trivial things never ceases to amaze me. |
| Vidhya: | Perhaps we argue about such things because we have so little power over significant ones. |
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