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"On the nets we are clearly identified as students, and we can't even get into the real discussions except inaudience mode, which means we can't say anything anyway.""I have a plan.""You always do." She pretended nonchalance but she listened eagerly."We can get on the nets as full-fledged adults. with whatever net names we want to adopt, if Father gets us ontohis citizen's access.""And why would he do that? We alreads have student access. What do you tell him, I need citizen's access so Ican take over the world?""No, Val. I won't tell him anything. You'll tell him how you're worried about me. How I'm trying so very hardto do well at school, but you know it's driving me crazy because I can never talk to anybody intelligent,everybody always talks down to me because I'm young, I never get to converse with my peers. You can provethat the stress is getting to me."Valentine thought of the corpse of the squirrel in the woods and realized that even that discovery was part ofPeter's plan. Or at least he had made it part of his plan, after it happened."So you get him to authorize us to share his citizen's access. To adopt our own identities there, to conceal whowe are so people will give us the intellectual respect we deserve."Valentine could challenge him on ideas, but never on things like this. She could not say, What makes you thinkyou deserve respect? She had read about Adolf Hitler. She wondered what he was like at the age of twelve. Notthis smart, not like Peter that way, but craving honor, probably that. And what would it have meant to the worldif in childhood he had been caught in a thresher or trampled by a horse?"Val," Peter said. "I know what you think of me. I'm not a nice person, you think."第 137 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网