#gurder

Funny how people needed to argue. The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying, Masklin had noticed. Gurder and Angalo had really got the hang of -that-. The trouble was that neither of them was entirely certain he was right, and the funny thing was that people who weren't -entirely- certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince was themselves.

'Well, what else do you know that comes in tubes?' Angalo thought about this. 'Glue?' he said, uncertainly. 'Doesn't sound a good meal to me. Toothpaste and glue?' 'The people who drive the space jets must like it. They were all smiling in the picture I saw,' said Angalo. 'That wasn't smiling, that was probably just them trying to get their teeth apart,' said Gurder.