Narration: Moreover, each citizen possessed a moral monitor of great sensitivity,
Narration: which was situated in a vise with two toothed jaws: these would begin a gnawing action upon it whenever its possessor strayed from the straight and narrow. Trurl first tested this contrivance on a special model in his workshop; the poor thing was stricken with such pangs and twinges that it fell into a violent fit. But then, the capacitor soon charged with the necessary penance and the ignition with contrition, he was able to ease the monitor somewhat from those relentless jaws.
Narration: Trurl even considered connecting the monitor by regenerative feedback coupling to a splitting headache, but quickly changed his mind, afraid Klapaucius would again start to lecture him about compulsion ruling out the exercise of free will.
Trurl says: Klapaucius can have no objections. These people are happy, and their happiness is not programmed, hence predetermined and imperative, but wholly stochastic, ergodic and probabilistic. I’ve won at last!
Narration: And with this pleasant thought he fell asleep and slept till morning.
Narration: shouts of joy, which was a great comfort to him.
Narration: Which wasn’t at all true, for these new beings had statistical transmissions,
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