(Zenea) Their children are cute. We never saw one spoiled brat.
The babies do cry sometimes, but a three-four year kid screaming until
it achieves what it wants - there's no [such thing]. The children are
typically lively, curious and bothersome only when demanding explanation.
They haven't broken or broken ['brought into malfunction' is the meaning of the second 'broken']
any of our equipment (though I don't know how would they - each product
from the Old Kernel must pass through exactly the kids' hands first, and if [it]
endures, [it] may be sold).
I wonder, I wonder, skimming through these notes of ours, how many times have we
written "not [a single] one", "no sort of", "is not there anywhere"... aside of
their life apart from the rest of the world, are the Ajthatans also strict in enforcing
this extraneousness of theirs? Of how many things there are no exceptions. Their
taboo list seems to be quite lengthy. It also seems a good part of the list was pushed
into common forgetfulness,into the big dark forbidden forest. How do they tell what belongs
there, when some of that arises?