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I recall a sencice fiction book that I read many a year ago, the name (and most of the plot) of which I have since forgotten, except for an instance in which a group of humans was imprisoned by a group of aliens. And at one point one of the humans that knew the alien culture better than his friends did stood up and dramatically decried the conditions they had been kept in: why, they hadn't even been given enough privacy to eat without being seen by each other!And all the aliens were shocked (or ashamed) as appropriate, the man responded by switching to the more polite euphemistic phrases for referring to eating, and the three men were moved into cells with properly private cubicles for eating. At which point the man who had arranged all this spoke quietly and seriously to all of them that they had damn well better go do all their eating in privacy now. It was a way to make sure the aliens thought of them as civilized, and thus worthy of proper treatment, even as a prisoners, and not horrifying beastly aliens.Now I'm wondering if this was one of the books mentioned above as doing it right; it's been so long since I read it, I really can't remember anything else from the book but that particular sequence, which apparently made quite the impact on me at the time.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Nirmal
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
18 december 2014, 08:53:19
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