honey (06/08/82)
The messages they are capable of transmitting and receiving are al-
most as monotonous as the song of Mercury. They have only two possible
messages. The first is an automatic response to the second, and the
second is an automatic response to the first.
The first is, "Here I am, here I am, here I am."
The second is, "So glad you are, so glad you are, so glad you are."
peter honeyman
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passage from "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.