Narration: Trurl was so alarmed at this development that he scrapped the whole model as quickly as possible
Trurl says: Reason leads to heartlessness, Good produces madness! Must every attempt at historiographic construction be doomed to failure?
Narration: He decided to attack the problem on an individual basis again and dragged his first prototype, the Contemplator, from its closet.
Narration: It began to oh and ah in aesthetic rapture before a pile of debris,
Narration: but Trurl plugged in an intelligence component and it fell silent at once. He asked it if anything was wrong, to which it replied:
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