Whenever I start feeling scummy I recall the Morlocks and the Eloi from The Time Machine — only in our world people deliberately choose to be Eloi and not Morlo

Whenever I start feeling scummy I recall the Morlocks and the Eloi from The Time Machine — only in our world people deliberately choose to be Eloi and not Morlocks. <bondvillain>...and it's not like we literally eat Eloi, anyway. I'm chuffed with a 5% cut, so it's more like being a vampire, a parasite, than a werewolf, a predator. What was that management story about the chicken and the pig at breakfast? The sons of Mary* are only involved with me; the Eloi were committed to the Morlocks, after all.</bondvillain> * https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_martha.htm https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_martha.htm