Trurl says: “You know that’s impossible. Now tell me what else your students have uncovered!”

Machine says: “And what good is this very Existence of Happiness to me if I have to remain here at the head of

Machine says: my university with its thousand departments and colleges staffed by an army of scholarly Trurls?

Machine says: no happiness when one is trapped for all eternity in a maze of cathodes and anodes! I want my freedom!”

Machine says: “Inasmuch as bestowing happiness on some creatures at the expense of others is unethical and wholly unacceptable,

Machine says: it would be tainted from the first by my misfortune.

Machine says: Therefore I keep you from this shameless, heinous and most reprehensible deed—and say nothing.”

Trurl says: “But if you speak, that will mean you are sacrificing yourself for the good of others, and the deed will become noble, lofty and most commendable.”

Machine says: “You sacrifice yourself!”