THE FOURTH BOOK OF APES, CALLED
GODS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FIRST BOOK OF LIES
The apes get unsatisfiedThe priests start smiling
Chapter 2
The ismart ones were unsatisfied because the killers still got the best food, even though it was fire that made food taste better.
2The jkillers were unsatisfied because the invention of agriculture required them to kill less often.
3The ktimid were unsatisfied because they too longed to kill other living things, as safely as possible, and had no opportunity to do so.
4aThe skilled ones were unsatisfied for the same reason.
5bThe imaginative ones were unsatisfied because they saw that all the apes in the tribe had enough things to live quite comfortably,
6cWhich meant that there was no reason to attack other tribes with sharp sticks or other weapons,
7dUnless reasons could be invented with words and ideas.
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