<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I was just saying that it would be so easy for Austra to walk away, like the whole kitchen staff did, but she doesn't. As Joseph pointed out, maybe the price of freedom is too high, or maybe she enjoys her servitude, or at least tolerates it because it's easier than running away. She does have a certain amount of power in the situation, if only because she seems to have more self-awareness than the V-girls. In that sense, she might have more freedom than they do.</div><div><br></div><div>(Maybe it's a wrong assumption that the kitchen staff were also slaves. Have to re-read that.)<br><br><br><div><a href="http://Www.innergroovemusic.com">Www.innergroovemusic.com</a></div><div>Sent from Beyond the Zero</div></div><div><br>On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:23 AM, David Morris <<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Your question is comming from a place of (I presume) male privilege.<div>A slave is what the law defines it to be. "It" is the correct pronoun. Not a person.</div><div><br></div><div>David Morris<br><br>On Saturday, February 7, 2015, Keith Davis <<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com">kbob42@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Larger question, do we all choose our servitude, or would we choose to escape from it if presented with the possibility?<br>
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> ...is a slave? At the end of Ch. 8, the girls follow M & D up to the observatory. Austra is the authority here, as far as the girls are concerned. It seems she could so easily slip away into the continent and personal freedom. Does she choose her servitude?<br>
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