Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [505]

But my point isn’t who’s sleeping with whom or who’s feuding. My point is—my question is—how in the world can anyone get married and make babies with things the way they are now? — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 505

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The self-interruption (‘my point is—my question is—’) turns a rhetorical flourish into a genuine stall, as if Lauren is arguing herself into the question rather than posing it. The em-dash correction performs the shift from detached gossip to a question that implicates her own future, and the bluntness of ‘make babies’ keeps it from sounding like an abstraction.