Then Collective 0-0009 moved forward.
They moved to the table and the others followed.

"Yes," spoke Collective 0-0009,
"we have much to say to you."

The sound of their voices brought silence
to the hall and to beat of our heart.

"Yes," said Collective 0-0009, "we have
much to say to a wretch who have broken
all the laws and who boast of their infamy!

How dared you think that your mind held
greater wisdom than the minds of your
brothers? And if the Councils had decreed
that you should be a Street Sweeper,
how dared you think that you could be of
greater use to men than in sweeping the streets?"

"How dared you, gutter cleaner," spoke
Fraternity 9-3452, "to hold yourself as one
alone and with the thoughts of the one
and not of the many?"

"You shall be burned at the stake,"
said Democracy 4-6998.

"No, they shall be lashed," said Unanimity 7-3304,