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"I don't hate Jews, Val. I don't want to destroy anybody. And I don't want war, either. I want the world to holdtogether. Is that so bad? I don't want us to go back to the old way. Have you read about the world wars?""Yes.""We can go back to that again. Or worse. We could find ourselves locked into the Warsaw Pact. Now, there's acheerful thought.""Peter, we're children, don't you understand that? We're going to school, we're growing up--" But even as sheresisted, she wanted him to persuade her. She had wanted him to persuade her from the beginning.But Peter didn't know that he had already won. "If I believe that, if I accept that, then I've got to sit back andwatch while all the opportunities vanish, and then when I'm old enough it's too late. Val, listen to me. I knowhow you feel about me, you always have. I was a vicious, nasty brother. I was cruel to you and crueler to Enderbefore they took him. But I didn't hate you. I loved you both, I just had to be-- had to have control, do youunderstand that? lt's the most important thing to me, it's my greatest gift, I can see where the weak points are, Ican see how to get in and use them, I just see those things without even trying. I could become a businessmanand run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would Ihave? Nothing. I'm going to rule, Val, I'm going to have control of something. But I want it to be somethingworth ruling. I want to accomplish something worthwhile. A Pax Americana through the whole world. So thatwhen somebody else comes, after we beat the buggers, when somebody else comes here to defeat us, they'll findwe've already spread over a thousand worlds, we're at peace with ourselves and impossible to destroy. Do youunderstand? I want to save mankind from self-destruction."She had never seen him speak with such sincerity. With no hint of mockery, no trace of a lie in his voice. Hewas getting better at this. Or maybe he was actually touching on the truth. "So a twelve-year-old boy and his kidsister are going to save the world?""How old was Alexander? I'm not going to do it overnight. I'm just going to start now. If you'll help me."第 139 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网