Oh, of course, exiled! That's it. You pick up a book, and you're tossed from the community for being a heathen.
[He says, mistaking Manley's casual answer for satire. Give him another minute. He's getting Mad.]
... You're serious. You're— You're actually serious. Ejected from society, just like that? For knowing the meaning of a few letters put together, for knowing the alphabet at all? That's ridiculous! Literacy is an essential part of remembering culture, and history, and thus our mistakes so we do not make them again! That is such a pointless setback that future generations would look back by reading and think what on earth they were so afraid of. I don't know how you get by!
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[He says, mistaking Manley's casual answer for satire. Give him another minute. He's getting Mad.]
... You're serious. You're— You're actually serious. Ejected from society, just like that? For knowing the meaning of a few letters put together, for knowing the alphabet at all? That's ridiculous! Literacy is an essential part of remembering culture, and history, and thus our mistakes so we do not make them again! That is such a pointless setback that future generations would look back by reading and think what on earth they were so afraid of. I don't know how you get by!