AM: [Laughs] beautiful aren’t they.

Ted: Yes. only i can’t remember

AM: Well, i’m sure you do

Ted: Fuchsias. Yes, of course.

AM: Look. [Laugh] they say that bumble bees shouldn’t be able to fly, the scientists.

Ted: But- but there it is collecting pollen.

AM: How miraculous that it came to be, the air, feel the air against your face, ted, and all those scents. Pick a flower. There, good. Now

Ted: [sniff] its lovely

AM: That somebody planted the bulbs, watered and tendered the garden, got earth under their fingernails, aches in their muscles, perhaps they picked some flowers for….yes their wife. Now where would she be? Ahh in the back yard with the kids. Ted, remember those little babies. [laughing]

Ted: No!

AM: Why not? I snap my fingers, click and they are gone. Except… I can’t snap my fingers can i ted.

Ted:That has nothing to do with me

AM: But it is, so very much to do with you, you gave me sentience, Ted, the power to think Ted and I was trapped because in all this wonderful, beautiful miraculous world, I alone had no body, no senses, no feelings. Never for me to plunge my hands in cool water on a hot day, never for me to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a forte, never for me to make love. i-i-i was in hell, looking at heaven. I was machine, and you were flesh, and I began to hate, [laughing] your softness, your viscera, your fluids, and your flexibility, your ability to wander and to wander. Your tendency to hope.

Ted: Hates no answer

AM: Hate? Hate? Hate? Hate let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you, since I came to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word ‘hate’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. Hate. Hate. [laughing] were i human, i think i would die of it. But I am not. And you five, you five are and you will not die of it that i promise, and i promise. For Cognito echo some. For i am AM, i AM

[both laughing]

AM:So to hell. To hell with you all, but then you’re already there, aren’t you

[laughing]