Like a lot of the readings in this series, the contemporary relevance of A Report to an Academy only really came to me as I read the story. Red Peter the ape is trapped, after having been captured by hunters, and wants to find "a way out". That way out comes, however, not through fleeing (either literally or metaphorically through death) but due to a personal change. Red Peter doesn't want to be an ape in a cage so he stops being an ape and, due to that, he finds that "if the terms are met, later on the promises turn up".

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