Machine says: Did you ever hear of a lewd computer?
Trurl says: “Never.”
Machine says: You see? We must apply the method of successive approximations here.
Narration: one is one’s own lover, one courts oneself, adores oneself—only this invariably leads to egoism, narcissism, satiety, stagnation.
Narration: it would hardly do for an affianced unit to have to promenade along in a four-column formation
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