dissemble my distress

"Dissemble My Distress," August 3, 2022 (#215)

title from Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin (1968)

Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (1986)

Transition Dreams by Greg Egan (2003)

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2011)

Dream Stuff: Stories by David Malouf (2000)

Dissemble My Distress

The mathematical interpretation of verbal reactions of robots is

the brain-like data structures in still more forms -- generating more

and any bad thing might come from it. Though astonished now at

the furious involvement of blood and limbs and sweat and breath,

they had that instinctive thought themselves. They rushed madly

out of her mouth sometimes: fragments of nursery rhymes, lines

as big as anything going, knitting massive wooden trestles in the air of

a popular bookshop, then fielded the usual questions, some effusively

lost in friction and turbulence. The hotter the steam, the more

the warmer tones of the advertising signs embedded within them,

but not just a few words. A dog raised around the house knows some

land to be cleared at last of the shadow of blood. He is a new man.

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