| Jules: | This looks like guts being pulled apart. |
| Philyra: | What do you think happens to the animals we eat? |
| Jules: | I'd rather not . . . |
| Philyra: | Precisely. We're trained not to think on many levels. Most soldiers are trained not to think about the people they slaughter. We are also trained not to think about the animals we slaughter. From early on we filter out lots of unpleasantries. |
| Ellesha: | Non-thinking: isn't that what allows grisly horror to become simple routine? Just bypass awareness and switch to automatic pilot? No thinking person, for example, could do many ah the things that solidiers learn to do automatically. |
| Andrei: | Sometimes it feels too painful to be aware. At times I'd rather be on automatic. |
| Jules: | Et alors! Why da ya think l'alcool vez-invented? (sigh) |