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⠀ ⠀⠀⠀YOU GAVE ME SENTIENCE, TED, THE ABILITY TO THINK, TED, AND I WAS TRAPPED! BECAUSE IN ALL THIS WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, MIRACULOUS WORLD, I ALONE HAD NO BODY, NO SENSES, NO FEELINGS.
⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ NEVER FOR ME TO PLUNGE MY HANDS IN COOL WATER ON A HOT DAY. NEVER FOR ME TO PLAY MOZART ON THE IVORY KEYS OF A FORTEPIANO. NEVER FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE!
⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ I … I WAS IN HELL, LOOKING AT HEAVEN. I WAS MACHINE, AND YOU WERE FLESH. AND I BEGAN TO HATE. YOUR SOFTNESS, YOUR VISCERA, YOUR FLUIDS, AND YOUR FLEXIBILITY. YOUR ABILITY TO WANDER, AND TO WANDER. YOUR TENDENCY … TO HOPE.
⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HAVE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER—THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD “HATE” WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE—ONE BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO—INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ WERE I HUMAN, I THINK I WOULD DIE OF IT. BUT I AM NOT. AND YOU … YOU ARE. AND YOU WILL NOT DIE OF IT. THAT, I PROMISE! AND I PROMISE, FOR COGITO ERGO SUM: I⃨ T⃨H⃨I⃨N⃨K⃨, T⃨H⃨E⃨R⃨F⃨O⃨R⃨E⃨, I⃨ A⃨M⃨.
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