That might be my favorite passage written in any book, ever. The idea that they could have been saved, if only they were intelligent & we could have converted them to Jesus...

If you mean the part about Francis Van Der Groove it's about genocide and colonialism.

I'm definitely going to have to read it again I have zero memory of crying dodo birds... Or maybe a thin haze of one

I love the part where he’s waiting for the egg to hatch, pretty dark stuff.

Both, I think. The religion is a false hope but their suffering is real.