Oh-- no, not at all. If it seemed I was trying to draw a comparison I apologise...
[more raising the fleeting similarity, really. Though he does understand, the contradiction of his upbringing]
I was sold into service as a child - it was no hardship, like this, not by any means...
[quite the opposite - he was given shoes and good clothes; shelter and meals and even a little schooling. Things a pauper could only dream about for their child, that could make it almost worth it to sell him away.
At least a part of Linneus hopes it was the wish for a better life that his father sold him - not purely to pay off his gambling debts.]
And I never considered myself a prisoner of any sort - if a creature considers the cage its home, it has little cause to leave, does it?
[though the garden walls were like prison walls, with the benefit of hindsight; his brand like a prisoner's brand, just less-visibly placed. Even Xanthe - his master, or his jailer, to lock them in the house every night?]
no subject
[more raising the fleeting similarity, really. Though he does understand, the contradiction of his upbringing]
I was sold into service as a child - it was no hardship, like this, not by any means...
[quite the opposite - he was given shoes and good clothes; shelter and meals and even a little schooling. Things a pauper could only dream about for their child, that could make it almost worth it to sell him away.
At least a part of Linneus hopes it was the wish for a better life that his father sold him - not purely to pay off his gambling debts.]
And I never considered myself a prisoner of any sort - if a creature considers the cage its home, it has little cause to leave, does it?
[though the garden walls were like prison walls, with the benefit of hindsight; his brand like a prisoner's brand, just less-visibly placed. Even Xanthe - his master, or his jailer, to lock them in the house every night?]