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Robert Glück

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Government

To choose a profession each adult must afford
the government a piece of his parent’s body,
the piece depending on the profession. A male
gives from his mother’s or grandmother’s body,
a female gives from her father’s or grandfather’s.
For instance, if a man wants to be a lawyer he
furnishes the eye-teeth of his mother or grand-
mother. To be a doctor he gives the breasts.
The man or woman must yield a more substantial
section for employment less benificial to the
community, an example of government channeling.
The woman who decides to be indigent parts with
her father’s legs.

The fashion followed, the flat-chested look,
designers and movie stars. Style conscious
mothers sever their breasts during the child’s
infancy to show he will be a doctor. A consid-
erable number of women did this never supposing
that details of the body assignment law would
change. When they did change arbitrarily, the
people had their first inkling that the government
was against them.


 

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