`` it is very clever of you to suggest we should begin with pay , '' temeraire continued , heaping more coals of fire onto laurence 's conscience ; he had proposed it mainly for its being less radical a suggestion than many of the others which temeraire had advanced , such as the wholesale demolition of quarters of london to make room for thoroughfares wide enough to accommodate dragons , and the sending of draconic representatives to address parliament , which aside from the difficulty of their getting into the building would certainly have resulted in the immediate flight of all the human members .