Uncomfortable Progression

[cyrano]

If needs be that you must murder your children, there are essentially two ways you can go about it.
You can agonize over each one, feeling the pain and the anguish afresh each time and taking an abysmally long time to finish the job.
Or you can grow an emotional carapace, perhaps pretend you're only sending them to visit friends; you grow hard and cold, at which point the process becomes easier and easier until you're ready to start killing the neighbor children.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

It is very nearly a metaphor. I'm one bookshelf away from having finished my purge--then I can attempt to find workhouses and orphanages for my little darlings, or sell them to science.