安格斯考虑了这个。她是对的。这就是为什么我们的民族谈话如此糟糕的原因。礼貌被放弃了，攻击，计算出的声音咬合。那是什么样的民族对话？答案立即出现在他身上：没有。
(Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.)