How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"You really hate women. They all know something you don't" [...]
"You haven't given me the other ... whatever it was."
"Oh," he said. "Yeah, that."
He moved like a flash. There was a pressure, a stretching apart, and a ... a breakage. And with a tearing agony and a burst of triumph that drowned the pain, it was done.
(2.12.30-59)
Sexy time! This passage describes Lone taking Alicia's virginity. In other words, her loss of a kind of innocence.
Quote #8
As a group Homo Gestalt can solve his own problems. But as an entity:
He can't have a morality, because he is alone.
An ethic then. "An individual's code for society's survival." He has no society; yet he has. He has no species; he is his own species.Could he—should he choose a code which would serve all of humanity? (3.16.49-52)
Hip is something of an innocent soul for dreaming this up—an idealist if we've ever seen one.
Quote #9
And when there are enough of your kind, your ethics will be their morals. And when their morals no longer suit their species, you or another ethical being will create new ones that vault still farther up the main stream, reverencing you, reverencing those who bore you and the ones who bore them, back and back to the first wild creature who was different because his heart leapt when he saw a star. (3.17.14)
Again, More Than Human connects innocence with nature. The first wild creature's reaction to the star resembles Evelyn's reaction to nature—that is to say, an innocent reaction.