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[zerhakker]

asked M if he’s ever been in love.  he said it was the one meat thing he’d like to experience.  he said his creator was driven by love & madness, & he’d been programmed with madness but not with love.  I asked him what happened to his creator.  he said he died a long time ago.  I said, did he die of love or madness, & M said neither, it was a

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[lyonesse]

wonder if dr jones could build that for him.

[tracerj]

How long do you expect we'll be around, Z?

I've done a great deal of thinking on this, and all I have for now is that we try to understand other people because they're sort of like mirrors. I think we want to know more about who we are, and the only way we can see some parts of ourselves is to find them in others.

So, you know, if M looks for love in others, he just might find where it is in himself, 'cause let's face it, the artist is in the art, and even if it wasn't programmed in, I'll bet that love is in Moustachio somewhere. That's how it works where I'm from, anyhow.

-Program ZZ-00569/a "Zedda"

the other side of the mirror

[lamanifesta]

Well, like his last entry, I think this is about Nick. He's a machine, and presumably as immortal as Moustachio, with proper care. (I don't know if his brain will age in whatever medium it floats.) Even if he and Ginny could somehow be together, she (and Chris and Marcie) will age and die long before him. Very depressing, and, no doubt, confusing. This is becoming tragedy-horror. Jeff and Shaenon, which one of you is chanelling Mary Shelley?