“I don’t quite understand the Babyeater standards of literature, my lord, but I can tell that this text conforms to their style of… not exactly poetry, but… they tried to make it aesthetic as well as persuasive.” The Master’s eyes flickered, back and forth. “I think they even made some parts constant in the total number of light pulses per argumentative unit, like human prosody, hoping that our translator would turn it into a human poem. And… as near as I can judge such things, this took a lot of effort. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that everyone on that ship was staying up all night working on it.”
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