On Whetsday
“He could already read enough Xetosh to understand street signs and get by at the spaceport. Like everyone, he certainly knew the cluster of symbols that meant No Humans Allowed. Learning that much made life a lot less painful.
Really, he had never learned much more than was needed to find his way back to the quarter by ground transport, and what he needed to stay out of the cithians' way. Even the picture books he bought from Poppa Jam rarely had more than a few words, and if you paid atten...tion, you could understand the story without even reading them. Denny could have learned more, but, well...it wasn't like teaching humans to read was illegal, not really. It was just pointless. Everybody knew that. After all, the cithians had done lots of tests to show that humans were inferior at math, at reasoning, at everything that really mattered. No one was ever going to hire a human as a technician, much less an engineer. Humans were good for doing what they were told. Or maybe for dancing.MoreLess
Really, he had never learned much more than was needed to find his way back to the quarter by ground transport, and what he needed to stay out of the cithians' way. Even the picture books he bought from Poppa Jam rarely had more than a few words, and if you paid atten...tion, you could understand the story without even reading them. Denny could have learned more, but, well...it wasn't like teaching humans to read was illegal, not really. It was just pointless. Everybody knew that. After all, the cithians had done lots of tests to show that humans were inferior at math, at reasoning, at everything that really mattered. No one was ever going to hire a human as a technician, much less an engineer. Humans were good for doing what they were told. Or maybe for dancing.MoreLess
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