The Embry Parable

This is a story of a person named Embry. They worked for a company in a big building where they were employee #114. Employee #114's job was simple: he sat at their desk in Room 114 and pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came through a monitor on their desk telling them what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order. This is what Employee #114 did every day of every month of every year, and although others may have considered it soul rending. Embry relished every moment that the orders came in, as though they had been made exactly for this job. And Embry was happy. And then one day something very peculiar happened.