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Now if you were not the Sumari you would not be here at this particular time, and if all of you did not know what it was to be Sumari you would not be here at all. You have been given a language it seems that is not a language. And since you have been given it there is a reason for it, and what earthly good is a language that is not a language? An ancient language that never was and within those paradoxes what meanings are there for you to learn? Now I have—I’ve always been Sumari. I am a tough old Sumari. I am a Sumari of the old school. A Tumali of the old school. And what is there about a language that has both beginnings and endings in it as you think of them, elements of a distant past and portents of what perhaps languages might be in your future? And why do you need a language beside the one that you have? And you need not worry, you will not have to learn declensions. I would not have you stew over that with all of your other problems (to Bette).
(To Natalie.) There is one element you have not thought of, you have another record keeper over here.
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Listen to what is being said, and to what is not being said. Now give us a moment and listen to what is being said and to what is not being said and remember what I just told you. Your Seth break is over. In halves you will see what I mean later. Now listen to what is said and to what is not being said.
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(After break.) We had a question over here.
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