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... um, uh, uh, this is at the end of the novella, and, uh, two, uh, white captains of ships who've just, uh, observed and, uh, uh, unwittingly, uh, one of them, a, a slave rebellion, are reflecting on their experience.

Uh, the American captain, uh, uh, Amasa Delano, says, um, "You generalized, Don Benito, and mournfully enough.

But the past is past.

Why moralize upon it? Forget it.

Sea on bright sun has forgotten it all, and the blue sea and the blue sky, these have turned over new leaves." "Because they have no memory," he dejectedly replied.

"Because they are not human." Um, so I want to start first by reflecting on Delano's lines, "But the past is past." And these are wonderful lines to close read with students to reflect on the repetition, the tautology.

Oh, yeah