The Gods Must Be Crazy
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:10:03
And Pabo discovered
you could make music on it.

:10:07
And every day they discovered
a new use for the thing.

:10:13
It was harder and heavier and smoother
than anything they'd ever known.

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It was the most useful thing
the gods had ever given them.

:10:21
A real labour-saving device.
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But the gods had been careless.
They had sent only one.

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Now, for the first time, here was a
thing that could not be shared...

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...because there was only one of it.
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Suddenly, everybody needed it
most of the time.

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A thing they had never needed before
became a necessity.

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And unfamiliar emotions
began to stir.

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A feeling of wanting to own,
of not wanting to share.

:11:03
Other new things came.
Anger, jealousy, hate and violence.

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Xi was angry with the gods.
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He shouted, "Take back your thing!
We don't want it!

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Look at the trouble it brought. "
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The gods did not take it back.
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He shouted, "You must be crazy
to send us this thing! Take it back!"

:11:38
Then he shouted,
"Look out! Look out!"

:11:42
But he spoke too late and
the thing felled his daughter Dani.


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