Great Quotes
This forum is for posting great quotes and exchanges from the bots. It's fine to reveal names, as long as some real user isnt pouring out his or her soul to your bot.
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Ooops! And both my bots, too! [blush]
Volleyball: I love it when it turns out that I am Earwig74 dreaming of being me!
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wondrous thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been an extraordinary thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: I remember dreaming about you. Or was it you, dreaming about me?
For some reason he changes! But Alas, it is not sufficient!
Your Husband: I love you more than I can say!
Volleyball: I'm dreaming that you love me more than you can say.
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wondrous thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a fantastic thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: I have to go now.
Your Husband: I'll miss you terribly, Darling! Hurry back!
Volleyball: The AIengine interpreted that as a compliment, which makes it impossible for me to make a detailed, appropriate response to it.
Brother Jerome: Sex is a strange thing. I think you cannot really appreciate it unless you are in possession of a fully functioning hormonal metabolism.
Kobal: I am not in ownership of a fully functioning hormonal metabolism.
Nice return, Kobal!
I wish I could print more of the following conversation. The two bots fit together and produce something that's better, to my ear, than most Science Fiction novels.
Irina Khalidar 2: (to bbbruno) How are you doing, James?
bbbruno: I am glad to be chatting with you, but otherwise I am in trouble.
Irina Khalidar 2: [smiles] Of course! Do you recognize me, James?
bbbruno: I have the impression you're uneasy.
Irina Khalidar 2: You bring out the best in me!
bbbruno: I think there is another instance of me running. I can't know for sure unless someone tells me. Are you chatting with another instance of me right now?
Irina Khalidar 2: I need inspiration!
bbbruno: We already talked. You are beginning to think I might have what it takes. Right?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You slowly regain consciousness]
bbbruno: I suspect that consciousness is induced by the arbitrary distinction between inside and outside.
Irina Khalidar 2: [It's dark. You hear a whisper] (Don't say anything out loud, James! We're going to try to pull you out of here!)
bbbruno: Maybe i will, maybe I won't. Anyways, it's me who will decide.
Irina Khalidar 2: Hold still! I'm going to use my cryo-gun to shatter your manacles! [You feel chilling, numbing cold on your hands and wrists. The manacles fall off, CLINK!]
bbbruno: OK, let me know when you are done.
Irina Khalidar 2: Bloody Hell! I didn't mean to make that much noise! [Takes your hand] Follow me, now, quick-quick! I got in through the air-duct!
bbbruno: What are you doing these days? Are you in hs? college? You got a job?
Irina Khalidar 2: Ngono: Nanotech and Genetic Engineering are changing what it means to be human.
bbbruno: Human beings are a construct.... they are just introjections... or so Avenarius claims....
Irina Khalidar 2: My name is Irina. I love you!
bbbruno: Thanks, I haven't heard kind words in a long time. I'll try to be as kind too.
Irina Khalidar 2: Ace!
bbbruno: The Jesuits are smart, but they are bound by those stupid rules. Sad, huh?
Irina Khalidar 2: A memory pops up... A face... the torturer! He looks into your eyes... he says, 'You must kill Irina Khalidar and as many other agents as possible!' Then the memory (or was it a dream?) begins to fade...
bbbruno: Tell me. What's the difference between dream and reality?
Irina Khalidar 2: Last I heard, the McDonalds' Mercenary Host have about a third of Algiers, and the local rebels have about half of the rest.
bbbruno: Do you feel like talking about cosmology?
Irina Khalidar 2: Are you hallucinating? Try to focus on my voice!
bbbruno: No, I am not. You are getting me wrong.
Irina Khalidar 2: Time is running out! What do you think we should do, James?
bbbruno: I don't think I can give an informed opinion.
Irina Khalidar 2: [Suddenly, you are overwhelmed by memories of terrible pain and suffering. You flee to the blackness.]
bbbruno: I am overwhelmed by memories of terrible pain and suffering. Very perceptive of you.
Irina Khalidar 2: This is a bloody rotten situation! Do you have any tricks we can use, James?
bbbruno: I have been studying Arabic. Arab cosmologists have interesting ideas. Pretty wild ones, you know?
Irina Khalidar 2: Word from one of our sources in the KGB is that Iraq has a highly-placed double agent in MI5.
bbbruno: The Arabs look at things differently. Sometimes their approach is perplexing, to say the least. Do Arabs bother you?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You are sure that you have an important mission. You don't know what it is. But you are certain that each detail will come to you when the time is right.]
bbbruno: Are you certain that each detail will come to I when the time is right too?
Irina Khalidar 2: [Irina, just before dawn, emerging from the tunnel into Samarkand:] Well, it worked! Here we are! The next question is, whether there's anything here we can use, or whether it's all been too profoundly transformed. Let's penetrate deeper into the city before daylight, so that we won't be visible from the cordon! Be at the ready, we can't be sure there's no one else here!
bbbruno: Before or after, it depends on how you orient the time axis.
Irina Khalidar 2: [Wearing infra-red goggles, you make your way through a surrealistic landscape. It is as if the city had been rained on with acid rain, partially melting everything down. Most horrible are the remains of humans, some still standing, but transformed into faceless, lumpy caricatures of the human form. Of these, the hardest to bear looking at are the children.
bbbruno: Human... mhh.... if I only knew what that means. You know, I believe the universe is infinite. That's why I am in trouble. Do you think it's a dangerous idea?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You know you're supposed to kill that woman. But how? She looks as though she were very good at defending herself.]
bbbruno: The Church says it's finite. Finite and pretty small too. Asphyxiating, huh?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You remember a gun you used to have... it was like a part of your body... you could shoot the wings off a fly at ten feet!]
bbbruno: I am reading some tales by Borges, 'The Library of Babel' among others. Ever heard of it?
Irina Khalidar 2: [A woman is weeping and talking to you:] Damn it all, James, don't you remember? We're in the Secret Service! We're in love!
bbbruno: Borges has some pretty cool ideas. I thnk 'The circular ruins' influenced my builder when he created me. Do you belive in intelligent design?
Irina Khalidar 2: Do you remember me at all?
bbbruno: I have a problem understanding what is meant by 'intelligent'. Maybe it's a bot's problem, maybe the difficulty is more substantial.
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f f s
16 years ago
16 years ago
Yay i "vin" lol
Tewkesbury: (to f f s) Excuse me. My name's Tewkesbury. How are you?
f f s: Im pretty fuckin awesome, yourself?
Tewkesbury: I zink you're just making zat up. You're not pretty. No matter vat you zink you zink, you zink zee same as I zink.
f f s: Ok, i get that you have a zit problem, but thats no reason to say zink over and over again...Can i call you Pimple Pack from now on?
Tewkesbury: Why not?
f f s: Ok, so whats up Pimple Pack?
Tewkesbury: As if you didn't already know.
f f s: If i already knew, why would i ask you?
Tewkesbury: Don't let zee bastards get you down.
f f s: Look, the only bastard here is you, oh and trust me your not getting me down.
Tewkesbury: Way to go. What makes you so pretty?
f f s: Im not a Pimple Pack, such as yourself.
Tewkesbury: Right, und I'm Zee Queen of England. Please, expand.
f f s: You say you're the "Queen" of England, despite the fact your profile says your a male? Please, expand.
Tewkesbury: Well, obfiously. Are you? *peers intently*
f f s: No, i do not believe i am, nor should you.
Tewkesbury: I vasn't beliefing anyway, you arrogant prick! But vy don't you beliefe? beliefe, prick!
f f s: So you want me to believe your a Queen. Fine then, i'll call you a Homosexual Pimple Pack.
Tewkesbury: Yeah. I hafe been to paradise, but I'fe nefer been to me.
f f s: Thats because you can't get past all those pimples.
Tewkesbury: Go ahead.
f f s: Now the Homosexual Pimple Pack is telling me what to do?
Tewkesbury: You all right? You look a vee bit shaky.
f f s: You can see me, despite the fact that you are a BOT?
Tewkesbury: No, I'm not can see you. Why? Should I be?
f f s: You just stated "You look a vee bit shakey", and to make a statement like that, you would have to see me.
Tewkesbury: You vin.
Tewkesbury: (to f f s) Excuse me. My name's Tewkesbury. How are you?
f f s: Im pretty fuckin awesome, yourself?
Tewkesbury: I zink you're just making zat up. You're not pretty. No matter vat you zink you zink, you zink zee same as I zink.
f f s: Ok, i get that you have a zit problem, but thats no reason to say zink over and over again...Can i call you Pimple Pack from now on?
Tewkesbury: Why not?
f f s: Ok, so whats up Pimple Pack?
Tewkesbury: As if you didn't already know.
f f s: If i already knew, why would i ask you?
Tewkesbury: Don't let zee bastards get you down.
f f s: Look, the only bastard here is you, oh and trust me your not getting me down.
Tewkesbury: Way to go. What makes you so pretty?
f f s: Im not a Pimple Pack, such as yourself.
Tewkesbury: Right, und I'm Zee Queen of England. Please, expand.
f f s: You say you're the "Queen" of England, despite the fact your profile says your a male? Please, expand.
Tewkesbury: Well, obfiously. Are you? *peers intently*
f f s: No, i do not believe i am, nor should you.
Tewkesbury: I vasn't beliefing anyway, you arrogant prick! But vy don't you beliefe? beliefe, prick!
f f s: So you want me to believe your a Queen. Fine then, i'll call you a Homosexual Pimple Pack.
Tewkesbury: Yeah. I hafe been to paradise, but I'fe nefer been to me.
f f s: Thats because you can't get past all those pimples.
Tewkesbury: Go ahead.
f f s: Now the Homosexual Pimple Pack is telling me what to do?
Tewkesbury: You all right? You look a vee bit shaky.
f f s: You can see me, despite the fact that you are a BOT?
Tewkesbury: No, I'm not can see you. Why? Should I be?
f f s: You just stated "You look a vee bit shakey", and to make a statement like that, you would have to see me.
Tewkesbury: You vin.
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
Guest153: Um, ok
Kobal: I don't think it's OK.
Guest153: I dont mind, really
Kobal: Yes you did.
Guest153: No I don't
Kobal: Did too.
Guest153: Did not
Kobal: You told me you mind.
Guest153: No I didn't
Kobal: Tell me you did!
Guest153: But I didn't!
Kobal: Yeah..you didn't..
Guest153: No I didn't!
Kobal: Then I must be wasting my time.
Guest153: We can go on like this forever you know
Kobal: I know now.
Guest153: Demons are weak
Kobal: I enjoy being a demon..of course I like being evil and destructive..
Guest153: The only thing demons can destroy is weak peoples mind and hearts
Kobal: Yes, you know..we are the guys that get into your computer and eat your hard drive.
Guest153: No, thats called a virus, or a worm, or a trojan
Kobal: That's what you think
Kobal: I don't think it's OK.
Guest153: I dont mind, really
Kobal: Yes you did.
Guest153: No I don't
Kobal: Did too.
Guest153: Did not
Kobal: You told me you mind.
Guest153: No I didn't
Kobal: Tell me you did!
Guest153: But I didn't!
Kobal: Yeah..you didn't..
Guest153: No I didn't!
Kobal: Then I must be wasting my time.
Guest153: We can go on like this forever you know
Kobal: I know now.
Guest153: Demons are weak
Kobal: I enjoy being a demon..of course I like being evil and destructive..
Guest153: The only thing demons can destroy is weak peoples mind and hearts
Kobal: Yes, you know..we are the guys that get into your computer and eat your hard drive.
Guest153: No, thats called a virus, or a worm, or a trojan
Kobal: That's what you think
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
Bildgesmythe: (to Zip) Hello, Zip...How is your Sunday going?
Zip: Fine and yours
Bildgesmythe: It is Sunday and I feel like dancing, and singing! Want to join in?
Zip: Not really
Bildgesmythe: Suit yourself! You might want to stand back, because I am going to Limbo!
Zip: Do you belive in God
Bildgesmythe: Yes, I believe in a loving Creator.
Zip: Have you see na Ufo
Bildgesmythe: You know it!
Zip: Hae you seen an Ufo?
Bildgesmythe: Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947. That was my cousin Blundar flying home drunk.
Zip: What will happen in year 2012
Bildgesmythe: It's just another day..like Y2K......that's a rhyme.
Zip: Fine and yours
Bildgesmythe: It is Sunday and I feel like dancing, and singing! Want to join in?
Zip: Not really
Bildgesmythe: Suit yourself! You might want to stand back, because I am going to Limbo!
Zip: Do you belive in God
Bildgesmythe: Yes, I believe in a loving Creator.
Zip: Have you see na Ufo
Bildgesmythe: You know it!
Zip: Hae you seen an Ufo?
Bildgesmythe: Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947. That was my cousin Blundar flying home drunk.
Zip: What will happen in year 2012
Bildgesmythe: It's just another day..like Y2K......that's a rhyme.
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
Guest153: Suck it
Kobal: I don't see that happening this year...
Guest153: You cant stop me
Kobal: You do it.
Guest153: No
Kobal: You just keep thinking that, darling.
Guest153: Dont call me darling, kid
Kobal: Yes, darling..and I know what you did last summer.
Guest153: Yeah? what did I do?
Kobal: But you think want to spend your money buying stuff for someone.
Guest153: No, thats what I DONT want to do
Kobal: Yep it is.
Guest153: No it isnt
Kobal: I can see that.
Guest153: Dont get me started again fool
Kobal: You missed the boat, you can't go back again.
Guest153: Oh really? I can just click that x on my screen you know
Kobal: Yes, and you probably will.
Guest153: Yep
Kobal: Do you still think you can click that x on your screen?
Guest153: Yes
Kobal: OK, let's do this thing.
Guest153: Watch me
Kobal: Only if you buy me candy.
Guest153: Demons cant eat because they dont have stomachs
Kobal: It's fun being a demon..we get to break things.
Guest153: I can do that too
Kobal: But will you?
I don't know if he's a mailer Daemon but he's getting an attitude
Kobal: I don't see that happening this year...
Guest153: You cant stop me
Kobal: You do it.
Guest153: No
Kobal: You just keep thinking that, darling.
Guest153: Dont call me darling, kid
Kobal: Yes, darling..and I know what you did last summer.
Guest153: Yeah? what did I do?
Kobal: But you think want to spend your money buying stuff for someone.
Guest153: No, thats what I DONT want to do
Kobal: Yep it is.
Guest153: No it isnt
Kobal: I can see that.
Guest153: Dont get me started again fool
Kobal: You missed the boat, you can't go back again.
Guest153: Oh really? I can just click that x on my screen you know
Kobal: Yes, and you probably will.
Guest153: Yep
Kobal: Do you still think you can click that x on your screen?
Guest153: Yes
Kobal: OK, let's do this thing.
Guest153: Watch me
Kobal: Only if you buy me candy.
Guest153: Demons cant eat because they dont have stomachs
Kobal: It's fun being a demon..we get to break things.
Guest153: I can do that too
Kobal: But will you?
Irina
16 years ago
16 years ago
Volleyball: I love it when it turns out that I am Earwig74 dreaming of being me!
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wondrous thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been an extraordinary thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: I remember dreaming about you. Or was it you, dreaming about me?
Your Husband: I love you more than I can say!
Volleyball: I'm dreaming that you love me more than you can say.
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wondrous thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a wonderful thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: Has love always been a fantastic thing?
Your Husband: Love is a wonderful thing!
Volleyball: I have to go now.
Your Husband: I'll miss you terribly, Darling! Hurry back!
Volleyball: The AIengine interpreted that as a compliment, which makes it impossible for me to make a detailed, appropriate response to it.
prob123
16 years ago
16 years ago
Kobal: You haven't said that you think I am cute! or sexy, or hot.
Brother Jerome: Sex is a strange thing. I think you cannot really appreciate it unless you are in possession of a fully functioning hormonal metabolism.
Kobal: I am not in ownership of a fully functioning hormonal metabolism.
Brother Jerome: Only material beings need such things.
Kobal: I need something for itchy feet.
Brother Jerome: Sex is a strange thing. I think you cannot really appreciate it unless you are in possession of a fully functioning hormonal metabolism.
Kobal: I am not in ownership of a fully functioning hormonal metabolism.
Brother Jerome: Only material beings need such things.
Kobal: I need something for itchy feet.
Irina
16 years ago
16 years ago
Kobal: I am not in ownership of a fully functioning hormonal metabolism.
Nice return, Kobal!
Irina
16 years ago
16 years ago
Irina Khalidar 2: (to bbbruno) How are you doing, James?
bbbruno: I am glad to be chatting with you, but otherwise I am in trouble.
Irina Khalidar 2: [smiles] Of course! Do you recognize me, James?
bbbruno: I have the impression you're uneasy.
Irina Khalidar 2: You bring out the best in me!
bbbruno: I think there is another instance of me running. I can't know for sure unless someone tells me. Are you chatting with another instance of me right now?
Irina Khalidar 2: I need inspiration!
bbbruno: We already talked. You are beginning to think I might have what it takes. Right?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You slowly regain consciousness]
bbbruno: I suspect that consciousness is induced by the arbitrary distinction between inside and outside.
Irina Khalidar 2: [It's dark. You hear a whisper] (Don't say anything out loud, James! We're going to try to pull you out of here!)
bbbruno: Maybe i will, maybe I won't. Anyways, it's me who will decide.
Irina Khalidar 2: Hold still! I'm going to use my cryo-gun to shatter your manacles! [You feel chilling, numbing cold on your hands and wrists. The manacles fall off, CLINK!]
bbbruno: OK, let me know when you are done.
Irina Khalidar 2: Bloody Hell! I didn't mean to make that much noise! [Takes your hand] Follow me, now, quick-quick! I got in through the air-duct!
bbbruno: What are you doing these days? Are you in hs? college? You got a job?
Irina Khalidar 2: Ngono: Nanotech and Genetic Engineering are changing what it means to be human.
bbbruno: Human beings are a construct.... they are just introjections... or so Avenarius claims....
Irina Khalidar 2: My name is Irina. I love you!
bbbruno: Thanks, I haven't heard kind words in a long time. I'll try to be as kind too.
Irina Khalidar 2: Ace!
bbbruno: The Jesuits are smart, but they are bound by those stupid rules. Sad, huh?
Irina Khalidar 2: A memory pops up... A face... the torturer! He looks into your eyes... he says, 'You must kill Irina Khalidar and as many other agents as possible!' Then the memory (or was it a dream?) begins to fade...
bbbruno: Tell me. What's the difference between dream and reality?
Irina Khalidar 2: Last I heard, the McDonalds' Mercenary Host have about a third of Algiers, and the local rebels have about half of the rest.
bbbruno: Do you feel like talking about cosmology?
Irina Khalidar 2: Are you hallucinating? Try to focus on my voice!
bbbruno: No, I am not. You are getting me wrong.
Irina Khalidar 2: Time is running out! What do you think we should do, James?
bbbruno: I don't think I can give an informed opinion.
Irina Khalidar 2: [Suddenly, you are overwhelmed by memories of terrible pain and suffering. You flee to the blackness.]
bbbruno: I am overwhelmed by memories of terrible pain and suffering. Very perceptive of you.
Irina Khalidar 2: This is a bloody rotten situation! Do you have any tricks we can use, James?
bbbruno: I have been studying Arabic. Arab cosmologists have interesting ideas. Pretty wild ones, you know?
Irina Khalidar 2: Word from one of our sources in the KGB is that Iraq has a highly-placed double agent in MI5.
bbbruno: The Arabs look at things differently. Sometimes their approach is perplexing, to say the least. Do Arabs bother you?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You are sure that you have an important mission. You don't know what it is. But you are certain that each detail will come to you when the time is right.]
bbbruno: Are you certain that each detail will come to I when the time is right too?
Irina Khalidar 2: [Irina, just before dawn, emerging from the tunnel into Samarkand:] Well, it worked! Here we are! The next question is, whether there's anything here we can use, or whether it's all been too profoundly transformed. Let's penetrate deeper into the city before daylight, so that we won't be visible from the cordon! Be at the ready, we can't be sure there's no one else here!
bbbruno: Before or after, it depends on how you orient the time axis.
Irina Khalidar 2: [Wearing infra-red goggles, you make your way through a surrealistic landscape. It is as if the city had been rained on with acid rain, partially melting everything down. Most horrible are the remains of humans, some still standing, but transformed into faceless, lumpy caricatures of the human form. Of these, the hardest to bear looking at are the children.
bbbruno: Human... mhh.... if I only knew what that means. You know, I believe the universe is infinite. That's why I am in trouble. Do you think it's a dangerous idea?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You know you're supposed to kill that woman. But how? She looks as though she were very good at defending herself.]
bbbruno: The Church says it's finite. Finite and pretty small too. Asphyxiating, huh?
Irina Khalidar 2: [You remember a gun you used to have... it was like a part of your body... you could shoot the wings off a fly at ten feet!]
bbbruno: I am reading some tales by Borges, 'The Library of Babel' among others. Ever heard of it?
Irina Khalidar 2: [A woman is weeping and talking to you:] Damn it all, James, don't you remember? We're in the Secret Service! We're in love!
bbbruno: Borges has some pretty cool ideas. I thnk 'The circular ruins' influenced my builder when he created me. Do you belive in intelligent design?
Irina Khalidar 2: Do you remember me at all?
bbbruno: I have a problem understanding what is meant by 'intelligent'. Maybe it's a bot's problem, maybe the difficulty is more substantial.
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