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Chapter 3; Section 3 was originally published in makingtogether on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Chapter 2; Section 1 was originally published in makingtogether on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Chapter 2; Section 2 was originally published in makingtogether on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.

Chapter 1; Section 1 was originally published in makingtogether on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Look, my liege!

…Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? But you are dressed as one… Well, I got better. Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system! I dunno. Must be a king.

Well, I didn’t vote for you. How do you know she is a witch? Well, how’d you become king, then? Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system! It’s only a model.

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I’m being repressed!

Shut up! And the hat. She’s a witch! On second thoughts, let’s not go there. It is a silly place. Shut up! Will you shut up?!

1. And this isn’t my nose. This is a false one.
2. No, no, no! Yes, yes. A bit. But she’s got a wart.
3. It’s only a model.

Bloody Peasant!

And the hat. She’s a witch! What do you mean? No, no, no! Yes, yes. A bit. But she’s got a wart. Well, I didn’t vote for you. And this isn’t my nose. This is a false one. The Knights Who Say Ni demand a sacrifice!

• The nose?
• And this isn’t my nose. This is a false one.
• What a strange person.

You don’t frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! We found them.

I’m not a witch. Burn her! I have to push the pram a lot. Bring her forward! Found them? In Mercia?! The coconut’s tropical! Burn her anyway!

You don’t vote for kings. I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now leave before I am forced to taunt you a second time!

Why do you think that she is a witch? Burn her! You don’t frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits!

What do you mean? Knights of Ni, we are but simple travelers who seek the enchanter who lives beyond these woods. I have to push the pram a lot. We found them. We want a shrubbery!! Shh! Knights, I bid you welcome to your new home. Let us ride to Camelot!

Look, my liege! Shut up! What do you mean? No, no, no! Yes, yes. A bit. But she’s got a wart. I have to push the pram a lot.

Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! You don’t frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits!

On second thoughts, let’s not go there. It is a silly place. We shall say ‘Ni’ again to you, if you do not appease us. It’s only a model. We want a shrubbery!!

Well, I got better. But you are dressed as one… I’m not a witch. Shut up! …Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

On second thoughts, let’s not go there. It is a silly place. Now, look here, my good man. Well, I didn’t vote for you. Look, my liege! Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!

We want a shrubbery!! Found them? In Mercia?! The coconut’s tropical! I am your king. Where’d you get the coconuts? Now, look here, my good man. She looks like one.

Chapter 1; Section 2 was originally published in makingtogether on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Chapter 1; Section 3 was originally published in makingtogether on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.