the bfg

"The world is a whopping big place," the BFG said. "It has a hundred different countries. The giants is clever. They is careful not to be skididdling off to the same country too often. They is always switchfiddling around."

"Even so..." Sophie said.

"Do not forget," the BFG said, "that human beans is disappearing everywhere all the time even without the giants guzzling them up. Human beans is killing each other much quicker than the giants is doing it."

"But they don't eat each other," Sophie said.

"Giants isn't eating each other either," the BFG said. "Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other. Nor is crockadownlillies killing other crockadownlillies. Nor is pussy-cats killing pussy-cats."

"They kill mice," Sophie said.

"Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind."

"Don't poisonous snakes kill each other?" Sophie asked. She was searching desperately for another creature that behaved as badly as the human.

"Even poisnowse snakes is never killing each other," the BFG said. "Nor is the most fearsome creatures like tigers and rhinostossterisses. None of them is ever killing their own kind. Has you ever thought about that?"

Sophie kept silent.

"I is not understanding human beans at all," the BFG said. "You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?"

"Right," Sophie said.

"But human beans is squishing each other all the time," the BFG said. "They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.

He was right. Of course he was right and Sophie knew it. She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants.

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I wonder too... =\