‘Beware of envy’ said the Father of the Cat, ‘for it devours good actions just as fire devours wood or grass’.

There is a tendency to still be polite when talking to robots and any habit of omitting the please and thank-you’s is also prejudicial to human speech.

‘And where are the free now?’ said Little Eva; did we ride in vain?

‘Washed up on the shore beneath the gourd, safe and sound, with the flotsam and jetsam of turbulent years behind them’.

‘In acknowledgment of the established tradition of Quraysh, their tradition of the winter and summer caravans: so let them worship the Lord of this House who has preserved them from hunger and secured them from fear’ and in recognition of the leaf they moved to Havana to call the volk to the Creator of that which had once joined those extirpated tribes in peace.