“I
learned my way of looking on the world from an old slave I was chained to on
the galley. From the farthest east, he
was. He taught me that as I suffer, so
do all, and if any suffer, so do I, that we are all part of one, that in any
moment my dark skin connects me to all things, light and dark, and all things,
light and dark, are part of me, so to do harm to any man, any creature, is to
be ignorant to my own nature, to do harm to myself and all other things. That is what I believe.”
“Really? How did that work as a
pirate?”
“Reality is oft uncooperative.”
He shrugged.
(from The Serpent
of Venice by Christopher Moore)
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