Srini C. ’s Reviews > The Employees > Status Update

"I feel a
similar longing to be human, as if somehow I used to be, but then lost the
ability [...] I look like
a human, and feel the way humans do. I consist of the same parts. [...] Is it a
question of name? Could I be a human if you called me so?"

"my mind is like a hand, it touches rather than thinks."

" I feel I carry it with me,
the way a taste sometimes lingers in the mouth. "

" Is this a human problem? If so, I’d like to keep
it."

"but I know that I’m living. I live, the way numbers
live, and the stars; the way tanned hide ripped from the belly of an animal
lives, and nylon rope; the way any object lives, in communion with another.
I’m like one of those objects. You made me, you gave me language, and
now I see your failings and deficiencies. I see your inadequate plans."

" The language is that they’re
many, that they’re not one, that one of them is the reiteration of all of them."

" It might not
look like much. There’s only two rooms. You’d probably say it was a small
world, but not if you have to clean it"