Fremen once ran away to join the Circus but was turned away because of a little-known and rarely-used unspoken circus superstition: never accept into your big top a man who comes to you asking if elephants like peanuts and if there is someone guarding the elephants or if they are all alone.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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