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However they all still promote belief in it, and thus the cycle of violence inherent to the text is always just percolating beneath the surface waiting for a change in the dominant interpretation, or some other convenient excuse, in order to be expressed again on any unwitting neighbours. Pretending that isn't true is like the proverbial contract between the frog and the scorpion.