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"I see myself as knowing how to insert ideas into the public mind. Haven't you ever thought of a phrase, Val, aclever thing to say, and said it, and then two weeks or a month later you hear some adult saying it to anotheradult, both of them strangers? Or you see it on a video or pick it up on a net?""I always figured I heard it before and only thought I was making it up.""You were wrong. There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Mostof them are making a living somewhere. Teaching, the poor bastards, or doing research. Precious few of them areactually in positions of power.""I guess we're the lucky few.""Funny as a one-legged rabbit, Val.""Of which there are no doubt several in these woods.""Hopping in neat little circles."Valentine laughed at the gruesome image and hated herself for thinking it was funny."Val, we can say the words that everyone else will be saying two weeks later. We can do that. We don't have towait until we're grown up and safely put away in some career.""Peter, you're twelve.""Not on the nets I'm not. On the nets I can name myself anything I want, and so can you."第 136 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网