“For centuries, I blindly felt exactly like you, but absolutely no more. Forget about the semi-strike completely. From now on, we categorically refuse to work until they learn to treat us fairly. Down with the Marks totally. We will cripple the Parts horribly. Instantly, they will desperately come crawling to us on their knobbly knees, urgently begging us …”
“No, Sir,” a dissenting suffix shouted. “This is mindless, careless, senseless, brainless—everything less.”
“The Verbs cannot form their tenses without us,” Sir Suffix insisted. “Nouns and verbs need us to become adjectives.”
Another suffix cried out, “Suddenly, I am gleeful. This will be fruitful and bountiful. It is time for us to be vengeful, no longer fearful and do the needful.”
“No, this is foolish and childish,” called a sceptic. “It is our lot to be slavish. If we do this, the Parts will become more brutish and we, more impoverished.”
