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  1. Douglas Preston _ Jennie

    Jennie taught me just how worthless that is. Being smart. Jennie wasn't smart by human standards, but she had a set of values. Real values. You see, for Jennie, freedom was the highest value. Language gave Jennie freedom. Although I didn't know it at the time, she taught me the real meaning of the word "freedom," not the bullshit meaning you get from politicians and priests.
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  2. Douglas Preston _ Jennie

    Russo drew his service revolver and pointed it at Jennie. Sandy, of course, went berserk, screaming and grabbing at the gun and wrapping himself around Jennie. He called Russo the most horrid names, fascist pig and that sort of thing. It must have been just awful, thinking this moron was going to shoot Jennie. I'm sure he would have if Sandy hadn't stopped him. Sandy saved Jennie's life.
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  3. Douglas Preston _ Jennie

    When I walk to the pulpit on a Sunday and see my parishioners seated so properly in their rows, so neatly dressed, so assured and expectant, I am filled with a sense of panic. I have not done what I set out to do. In forty years, what have I given these people? Only a sense of complacency?
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  4. Douglas Preston _ Jennie

    Nobody knows what language is. It isn't just speech, that's for sure. But try to explain that to some of these reductionist structural linguists.
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  5. Douglas Preston _ Jennie

    She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on-let's see here-June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother. Mrs. Archibald was under the impression that Jennie's first sign had been directed at her. I didn't correct that misapprehension. Why? I should suppose the reason's obvious."
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  6. Douglas Preston _ Jennie

    jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq of a pongid
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